Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com.
Let's take a look at creating slideshows using iMovie.
We're using iMovie version 10.
Let's take a look at building a slideshow using photographs in iMovie.
There is so much you can do here.
First of all you have access directly to your iPhoto library from Libraries here on the
left.
So if you bring that up you can see all the photos that you've got there.
So let's start off by creating a new movie project and then we will simply set it to
No Theme and name it.
Then we will look at the iPhoto library.
You can see I can drag and drop.
I can dig down into Events.
I can look in my Albums.
Things like that.
But I am going to drag and drop photos here and put a few of them right after each other.
Let's shrink down the magnification here so I can see them a little more easily.
You can see right away by default they have this kind of Ken Burns effect where they zoom
and out like that.
We can adjust that pretty easily by simply selecting the photo there and go to Adjust.
Under Adjust we have Cropping.
You can see it is set to Ken Burns.
You have your start area and you have your end area.
So we can do lots of different things with this to animate the photo.
It it pretty self explanatory how it works.
Now if we move through here we can see (let's set this by hitting the button again up there)
and then we can see how it goes from one to the other.
But if we don't want that, that isn't what we want, we can use Fit or Crop.
Crop will then fill the entire frame here while Fit will actually fit the entire photo
in but it is going to leave black bars on the left and right because the photo is a
4 x 3 photo where I'm doing a 16 x 9 video.
So cropping does this and then I can adjust what part of the photo I want to include in
there.
You can see now along the duration of the photo if I scrub back and forth you can see
there is no movement because I'm not using the Ken Burns effect there at all.
Just like with videos I can add transitions between the photos.
I can use the same transitions that I use in the video.
So just drag and drop those in there.
Now you can see as you scrub across it the transitions like that.
You can apply the same Effects as well.
So I can click on this video here and I can do color effects like these and I can do video
effects as well.
You can Preview there on the right what it looks like.
I can decide to stick one in.
So by using an animated effect, like say aged film, I can actually even make it look like
it is video because there is something moving on there.
Now you're not restricted to just grabbing things from you iPhoto library, from there
like that.
You can actually go from the Finder.
So here is a Finder window and I've got a bunch of pictures and I can actually drag
and drop a picture into the timeline just like that.
So it is not even in my iPhoto library.
That works just fine.
So you don't even need to use iPhoto for this.
You can drag and drop a whole folder full of pictures into iMovie.
It will throw them all together and create a slideshow for you.
In addition, of course, you can also use Titles.
You can put the title over the photo.
So I can assign some text there and just select it and change the text very easily.
I can also add text to say the beginning of the video.
So let's find something that works for that.
Let's say lets use the standard here and I can put that before the video.
You can see how it drops in so now you can have that as its own thing.
If I want to change the duration of any of these I can select them and, under Adjustments,
I can go to Info and there I have duration right there on the right.
So I can make it twice as long just like that.
But I can also drag the edges here if I don't need to be precise.
The same thing here with the title of course.
So you can do just about anything you do with video you can do here with photos in a slideshow.
Then when you are done you can Share it just like a video as well.
So you can share it to all the same places as before.
Upload it to YouTube.
You can export it to a File as well or send it to iTunes for greater compatibility with
other things.
The sky is really the limit.
You can drag and drop music in.
So we can go to sound effects in Music or GarageBand and grab some music that we've
got and drag and drop that in to hear as a soundtrack.
You can also use the voiceover ability in iMovie to record your voice and you can basically
narrate a slideshow and export the video.