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Opening iMovie and Starting a New Project
Hello, and welcome to Tutorial One for iMovie: “Opening iMovie and Starting a New Project.” In this tutorial, you’ll be learning how to open the iMovie software and begin a project of your own. For this first project, we are going to be making a photo slideshow. If you have your own photos that you would like to use, you can download them to the iMac before continuing onto section two. If you do not have photos you would like to use, that’s okaythere are plenty to select from on the desktop. Before we get started, let’s spend some time talking about how to drive the iMac computer. If you are a regular Windows user, like me, there are some adjustments you will have to make in your behavior when using the iMacs. First, while you may not see any buttons or scroll wheel on the mouse, it does have these capabilities. Leftclick by pressing on the front left side of the mouse with your finger. Rightclick by pressing on the frontright side of the mouse with your finger. I’ll give you a couple of seconds to try this. (WAIT FIVE SECONDS) You can scroll down by placing your middle finger on the front, middle part of the mouse, where a scroll wheel would normally be, and gently, without pressing too hard or clicking, moving your finger forward, toward the very front end of the mouse. You can scroll up by placing your finger on the front, middle part of the mouse, and moving your finger backward, toward the top hump of the mouse. I’ll give you a couple of seconds to try this. (WAIT FIVE SECONDS) Copying, cutting and pasting works a little bit differently on the Mac than it does on a Windows PC. Look down at your keyboard. On the bottom row, toward the left, is the “Command” button. The Command button is used for many shortcuts, including cutting, copying and pasting. To cut, press and hold the Command button, and while holding it, hit the “X” key. To copy, press and hold the Command button, and while holding it, hit the “C” key. To paste, press and hold the Command button, and while holding it, hit the “V” key.It’s also important to note that in order to close a program, you cannot simply click on the red button in the upper left corner of a window. (SHOW THE BUTTON WITH THE CURSOR OF THE MOUSE) Clicking the red button only closes the window temporarilyit does not actually quit the program. The fastest way to quit a program on a Mac is to press and hold the Command button, and while holding it, hit the “Q” key. Now that we’ve covered some basics, we’re ready to start a project with iMovie. Here is the iMovie icon. (POINT TO IMOVIE ICON WITH CURSOR) Doubleclick on the iMovie icon to open the program. This is the iMovie software interface. Over here you can see the project library. (POINT TO PROJECT LIBRARY) The project library contains all ongoing iMovie projects. It is important to understand that anyone who uses the iMac can see a project saved to the project library. If a patron wants to save an iMovie project, please explain to the patron that a project saved to the library’s iMacs may be altered or deleted by other users, and that the content of the project is not private. Encourage the patron to save his or her project on a flash drive or SD card, and not to the iMac. We want to start a new project, so let’s move up here to the menu bar at the very top of the page, click on “File,” and then click on “New Project,” which should be the very first option on the dropdown list the unfolds. (GO TO FILE AND CLICK NEW PROJECT) You’ll see that you have several themes that you can pick from. Themes help to make your movie or slideshow cohesive, and can add more character to the production. Because we are making a photo slideshow for this first project, let’s select the “Photo Album” theme. Now, we want to give our project a name. I’m calling mine, “Meredith’s first project.” (SELECT THEME AND NAME PROJECT) Notice that if you wish, you can change the aspect ratio and frame rate of your movie. I like the widescreen look, so I’m going to leave my movie at 16:9, and leave the framerate as well. I am also going to leave the “add transitions and titles” box checked, as iMovie will automatically add subtle transitions between each photo in my slideshow with this option. If I decide that I do not like a certain transition, I can easily change or remove it when I am editing my production. Go ahead and click “Create.”
(CLICK CREATE) You’ll notice that our upper left window is now our project space. The outlined frames with dotted lines represent the spaces where our photos will go, with the first photo in the slideshow going in the slot on the far left. This concludes Tutorial One. Great job! In Tutorial Two, we’ll be importing photos. If you have personal photos you would like to use for this task, go ahead and save them to the iMac or to a personal flash drive or memory device, so that you can upload them to the iMacs.
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Getting Pictures into iMovie (Part One)
Hello, and welcome back. This is Tutorial Two for iMovie: “Getting Pictures into iMovie.” This is a twopart tutorial. For this first tutorial, you are going to need some photographs. Because this tutorial may involve spending time selecting photos, you will want to give yourself an hour to complete the exercise. You are welcome to use any of my personal photographs which are available on my Creation Station Training Flickr photo album, here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/29332391@N03/837e28/ and are Creative Commons licensed. (SHOW LINK TO ALBUM WITH CURSOR) You are also welcome to use your own, personal photographs. You can pull photographs from a personal device with USB cord, photo hosting page (such as Flickr), flash drive or SD card. The USB ports and SD card reader are located at the back of the computer. You can also import photos from a CD by using the CD drive beneath the computer monitor. For this tutorial, I will be importing photos from a CD. Once you have inserted the CD (or flash drive or SD card) into the drive, which I have already done, you will want to use the Finder application to open it. This is the Finder application down here.
(POINT TO FINDER WITH CURSOR AND CLICK) You can see that my CD has shown up in the window here. Let’s click on it to open the contents, and then open the folder that contains printready images which are highresolution, and will look nice when enlarged during the slideshow. (OPEN FOLDER WITH PRINTREADY IMAGES) Now, I don’t want to cut and paste these images onto the iMac, because I want to keep all of my original files on this disc, so instead, I’m going to copy them into iPhoto. That way, I’ll maintain all of my original copies on this disc and won’t run the risk of losing any pictures. The iPhoto application is actually mapped to the dock, which is this bar at the bottom of the screen. Go ahead and open the iPhoto application. (SHOW DOCK WITH CURSOR AND CLICK ON IPHOTO TO OPEN) You can easily add photos to iPhoto by clicking and holding the picture you want to copy, and dragging it into the iPhoto work space. You can highlight multiple pictures at once by clicking and dragging the mouse over those pictures, and then clicking on one of the photos in that group, and dragging it into the iPhoto work space. (CLICK AND DRAG PICTURES INTO THE IPHOTO SPACE) Later, when we create our slideshow, you’ll see that iMovie makes it very easy to import pictures that are already saved to iPhoto. Now, let’s try something different. For those of you who want to use photos from a photosharing site like Flickr, or who have photos saved to your email or cloudsoftware, the easiest way to get them into iMovie is simply to download them. I will go ahead and open up my Flickr album and download a photo. (OPEN FLICKR ALBUM AND DOWNLOAD PHOTO) This is the download button in the lower righthand corner, here. (POINT TO DOWNLOAD BUTTON) You’ll notice that when I click on it, the site gives me several different size options to download. When working with photos that are meant to be enlarged, such as these slideshow photos, it is always the best idea to pick the largest size possible. Large, highresolution photos are the most likely to look clean and crisp when blown up on a big screen. Let’s go ahead and download one now. (DOWNLOAD PHOTO)
You’ll notice that the photo pops open in this preview window here. Let’s go ahead and close it for now, since we won’t be needing it. Download the rest of your photos, or copy the rest of your photos into iMovie. You’ll probably want at least 20 photos for this slideshow project. When you are done, please move onto part two of “Getting Pictures Into iMovie.”
Getting Pictures Into iMovie (Part Two)
Welcome back. Let’s get these pictures into iMovie! Okay, first, let’s open iMovie up if you have not already opened it. (OPEN IMOVIE) If your project is not already open in the project window, click on your project in the project library. You should be looking at a screen like this, with these dottedline rectangles. (POINT TO PROJECT WINDOW WITH CURSOR) If for some reason your project got deleted, it’s no big deal since we haven’t added any content yet. Just go ahead and click on “File” in the menu bar up here, and then “New Project.” (HOVER OVER THESE OPTIONS WITH CURSOR) So first, it’s important to note that whatever picture you put in this first slot will be the opening image of your slideshow. You can rearrange images later, so don’t worry too much about getting them in the correct order right now. Let’s try importing some pictures from iPhoto. On the righthand side of the program, you’ll see a little icon that looks like a camera. Go ahead and click on it once. (CLICK ON THE PHOTO ICON) You should see all of the pictures you copied into iPhoto. To make these part of your slideshow, simply drag and drop them into your slideshow workspace in the upper left corner. You can drag a photo and place it between two photos you’ve already put into the slideshow by simply placing the new photo in between the old ones, and clicking “insert.”(INSERT A PHOTO AS AN EXAMPLE) You may now pause this video while you drag and drop any remaining photos from iPhoto to iMovie. (PAUSE) Great! Now let’s try inserting some pictures that were downloaded from the web. On the far right side of your dock are two icons. One looks like a trash can. The one just to the left of the trash can is your downloads folder. Go ahead and click on it. (CLICK ON DOWNLOADS FOLDER) You should see all of the photos you downloaded from Flickr or another hosting site, your email, Google Drive, or wherever you chose to pull photos from. Click on one of these photo icons, and drag and drop it into your slideshow workspace. (DRAG AND DROP PICTURE INTO SLIDESHOW) Now drag and drop the rest of your photos into the slideshow workspace, and congratulate yourself on getting your content into your slideshow.
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Transitions
Welcome to Tutorial Three for iMovie: “Transitions.” A transition is what occurs between one photo and the next in your slideshow. Wellplaced transitions can be the difference between a choppylooking or professionallooking product. iMovie offers you several different options for transitions. In Tutorial One: “Opening iMovie and Starting a New Project,” I told you that I was going to leave the “add transitions and titles” box checked, so that iMovie would add transitions and titles for me. As you can see, iMovie has automatically placed a couple of different transition types into my slideshow. These are transitions. (HOVER OVER TRANSITIONS WITH CURSOR)Each different kind of transition has a different icon. You’ll notice that some of them look like two symmetrical triangles, and others look like two stacked squares. These are two different types of transitions. The triangles are “Cross Dissolve” transitions, and the two overlapping squares are photo album transitions that came with the photo album theme I chose. Now, the transitions that came with the theme are not able to be edited, but the others are. Go ahead and hover over one of the “Cross Dissolve” transitions. You should see a small blue box appear underneath your cursor. (HOVER OVER TRANSITION UNTIL BOX APPEARS) Click on this blue box, and select “Transition Adjustments.” Click on the button that says “Cross Dissolve.” (CLICK ON CROSS DISSOLVE) You should now see a menu with several different transition styles highlighted. Use your cursor to hover over some of these different styles to see how they work. (HOVER OVER SOME EXAMPLES) Pick any of these styles that is not the crossdissolve style and select it. Then hit the “done” button. If you told iMovie to add transitions and titles, you will have to undo that choice if you want to change this transition, but don’t worryall of your other transitions will remain in place. Go ahead and undo that option now. (UNDO “ADD TRANSITIONS AND TITLES”) Great! Your transition is now changed. You can also change the length of transitions. A short transition length will create a slideshow where one photo or video clip jumps to the next very quickly. A long transition length will create a slideshow where one photo or video clip very slowly fades into the next. Let’s change a transition length to see what that looks like. Pick any transition, and over over it until the small blue box appears underneath your cursor. (HOVER OVER TRANSITION UNTIL BOX APPEARS) Now that you’ve turned off automatic transitions and titles, you can edit the length of a transition. Let’s change this one to a full 5 seconds. When you’ve typed that in, go ahead and hit the “done” button. (CHANGE TRANSITION TO 5 SEC) Okay, now that we have changed a transition type and a transition length, let’s take a look at our slideshow from the beginning to see what happens. To play the slideshow, hit the “play project from the beginning” button in the lower left corner of your slideshow workspace. (HIT PLAY BUTTON)
Excellent job! In the next lesson, we’ll focus on adding titles to our slideshow.
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Titles
Hello and welcome to Tutorial Four for iMovie: “Titles.” Up to this point, we’ve done most of our work up here, in our slideshow workspace. (HOVER MOUSE OVER SLIDESHOW WORKSPACE) Now, you might notice that when we started this project, iMovie added a couple of titles for us. Over here, we have the name that we gave our project. (POINT TO PROJECT TITLE) Over here, we have the credits that iMovie added to our project. iMovie automatically picks the name of the computer user as the project creator, and patrons who want to keep the credits at the end will obviously want to change that, so let’s start here. To change a title that’s already been added to iMovie, simply click on the text box that appears above the picture or clip on which it appears in the slideshow. (CLICK ON CREDITS TITLE) Now, let’s look at our slideshow viewer on the right side of the screen. You’ll notice that the text is already selected. Go ahead and click anywhere on the text, and delete what is written there. (DELETE CREDITS TEXT) I’m going to write in my name. If you want, you can also write something new in the “Directed By” box. I’m going to change it to “Created By,” instead. (CHANGE CREDITS) Now, I think I’d like to rename my project as well. Let’s click on the text box above the very first picture. (CLICK ON TITLE AND CHANGE IT)Awesome! Now you’ve changed a couple of titles. So, what do you think you do if you want to add a new title? Well, for that, we’re going to start working outside of the slideshow workspace. Find a picture you’d like to add a title or caption to, and click on it so that the border of the picture is highlighted in yellow. (CLICK ON A PICTURE) Now, go to the box on the far right corner of the iMovie application and find the button that looks like the letter “T.” The “T” stands foryou guessed it“Titles.” (CLICK ON THE “TITLES” BUTTON) You’ll notice that there are lots of different title styles to choose from. You can hover over these small icons to see what they do. Some of the titles are highly animated, while others are more subtle. Take a few moments now to choose one that’s right for your slideshow. (WAIT FIVE SECONDS) Did you find one? When you know which one you want to use, click on it and drag it to the photo or clip on which you’d like for it to appear. (CLICK AND DRAG TITLE TO A CLIP) Now, we’re going to edit this new title just like we did with the other two. Click on the text box for the title you just added, and write in your new title over on the slideshow viewer. (CLICK ON TITLE AND CHANGE IT) You’ll notice that iMovie has picked the font, style and text size for you, and you might not really like it. It may not feel like the appropriate style for the picture or slideshow you’re creating, so let’s see about changing some of those options. First, highlight the title you just typed in over in the slideshow viewer on the right side of the screen. (HIGHLIGHT TITLE) Then, rightclick on the text. You’ll see lots of different menu options. Let’s click on “font,” and then on “show fonts.” (CLICK ON “FONT” AND “SHOW FONTS”) iMovie gives you a handful of preset fonts to work from. You can add more by clicking on the “System font panel” button at the bottom of the screen, but we’re not going to worry about that right now. Pick a font you like, and click on it. You’ll notice that you can also change the color and the size of the font. Pick a color that works for you, and a size that’s big enough to read, but not so big that it distracts from the picture itselfI prefer size “4.”
(CHANGE FONT, COLOR AND SIZE) Once you’ve clicked on these options, hit the “done” button. Now, right click on your text again, and this time, scroll down to “font” and look at the other font options. (CLICK ON TEXT AND LOOK AT FONT OPTIONS) You can make the text bold or italicized, or add an outline I like my text to be very cleanlooking, so I am going to remove the bold and outline options. (REMOVE BOLD AND OUTLINE OPTIONS) Great job! You’ve added a new title to your slideshow. You can hover and drag the mouse over the icon of the photo with the title to see how it will look when the slideshow is playing, or simply rightclick anywhere near the part of the slideshow you want to view, and click the “play” option from the dropdown menu. (RIGHTCLICK NEAR THE PICTURE AND PLAY) Now, I understand that you are probably getting tired of watching a silent slideshow, so the next thing we’re going to do is add some sound. If you have already downloaded music into iTunes, you can use that for your slideshow, but if you haven’t, I highly encourage you to watch the “Downloading Creative CommonsLicensed Music” before moving onto the next section of iMovie Training.
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Adding Music to a Slideshow
Welcome to Tutorial Five: Adding Music to a Slideshow. Before we start this tutorial, you should already have downloaded your selected creative commons audio track to iTunes on the computer. If you have not yet done this, please take a look at Creative Commons Tutorials One and Two: Getting Creative Commons Music and Downloading Creative Commons Music. If you’re ready to begin, go ahead and open up iMovie if it is not already open, and select your project from the project library.
(OPEN IMOVIE AND SELECT PROJECT FORM LIBRARY) Now, go to the far right corner of the iMovie application, and click on the button that looks like music notes. This is how you can add music and sound effects to your slideshow or movie. You’ll notice that there are some different options in this window, like the iMovie sound effect folder and the iTunes icon. If it is not already selected for you, click on the iTunes icon. (CLICK THE ITUNES ICON) You should see the name of the audio track that you have downloaded. If you don’t see this track, try downloading it again. It may also take a couple of minutes for your newlydownloaded track to show up, so if you don’t see it right away, give the iMac a minute or two to catch up. When you see your track, click and hold on the title of the track, and drag it up into your slideshow workspace. When your workspace background lights up green, let go, and drop the track in. iMovie will automatically start the track from the beginning of your slideshow. (CLICK AND DRAG TRACK TO SLIDESHOW) Why don’t you go ahead and test out your new slideshow with audio now? Click the “play project from beginning” button on the left side of the screen. You can pause this tutorial while you play your new slideshow. (CLICK PLAY) Now, if you’ve picked a short audio track, it’s possible that your slideshow will run out of music before your pictures are through. If this is the case, you have a couple of options. First, you can add an additional audio track to the slideshow. Using the exact same steps as before, download your track and save it to the iTunes Music folder on the iMac. Then, click on the music notes button on the far right side of the iMovie application. Click on your new track, and drag and drop it into your workspace. (CLICK AND DRAG NEW TRACK TO SLIDESHOW) The new track will be added to your slideshow, and you’ll be able to see where the audio tracks switch from one to the next, because they will be highlighted in different colors. (POINT TO DIVISION BETWEEN THE TWO TRACKS) I’m going to delete my music tracks now, so that I can show you another solution to having a track that’s too short. If you want to delete a track, simply rightclick on the track you want to delete, and choose “delete selection” from the dropdown list. (DELETE TRACK)
So, another solution to this issue is to simply add the same track over again. You can click and drag the same track back into the iMovie workspace, and it will automatically be added again. (CLICK AND DRAG SAME TRACK INTO WORKSPACE) Your track is now essentially on a loop, and will start over again from the beginning when it has finished playing. Your slideshow is starting to look really good! In the next lesson, I’ll show you how to add credits, and attribute your Creative Commons music track.
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Adding Credits
Hello, and welcome back. This is Tutorial Six: Adding Credits. At the end of your slideshow, you may want to add credits. The credits are a great place to mention everyone who has helped with the slideshow, including content creators, such as photographers or yourself, people who are featured in your pictures or videos, and of course, the creator of whichever music track you decided to download. If you did not previously save the attribution information for your music track, it would be a good idea to go back to Jamendo now, and copy down that information. Simply go to jamendo.com, and search for your track name and artist in the search bar. When you click on the name of the track, copy down the information in the attribution box, and paste it into Apple’s “Notes” application down here in the dock. (HOVER CURSOR OVER NOTES APPLICATION) Go ahead and pause this video now if you need to. Are you ready? Great! You can start by getting into iMovie, and clicking on the “Titles” button on the far right side of the page.(CLICK ON TITLES BUTTON) You are going to add a new title, but this time, instead of adding the title to an image, you are going to add it to the very end of your slideshow. Pick the title you like the best from the options given. Some of them are animated. You can hover over a title to see a preview of the animation in the thumbnail. (HOVER OVER A TITLE) I am going to pick the “Scrolling Credits” title style. In order to add it, all I have to do is drag and drop it to the end of my slideshow pictures. (DRAG AND DROP TO END OF PICTURES) You’ll notice that iMovie gives you several different background options. Pick the theme or color that you like the best. I’m going to stick with a black background for this feature. Now, the next bit is a little tricky, simply because there is not an easy way to quickly format your text. You can start by deleting what iMovie has already written in the credits box and type over top of it. (DELETE AND TYPE IN SOMETHING NEW) Instead of “Starring,” I’m going to write “Thanks to” for the heading. I am also going to change the subtext to the names of the people I want to thank. (CHANGE SOME OF THE SUBTEXT) Now, I want to make a new heading. The easiest way to do this is to simply highlight and copy the heading from the top of the page, paste it at the bottom of the page, and put in new text over top. (COPY AND PASTE HEADING) I’m going to write in “Music” so that attribute my song. In order to attribute a Creative Commons song, you first want to name the artist. In my subtext, I’ll write the name of the song in quotation marks, and then “by,” followed by the artist’s name, exactly as it appeared in the attribution section of ccMixter. (WRITE IN THE SONG TITLE AND ARTIST’S NAME) Now, I am going to open up the Notes application where I copied down the rest of the information. (OPEN NOTES APP) I’m first going to highlight and copy the URL for the song, should anyone else want to find and download it.
(HIGHLIGHT AND COPY SONG URL) Now, I am going to go back to my credits screen, and say “Available at,” and then paste the URL into the credits. (TYPE AVAILABLE AT AND PASTE URL) You may have to correct the formatting using the space bar or return key in order to get everything on one line and centered. This will only take me a second. (FIX FORMATTING) I’m now going to type in the following: Under CC BY license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is important, because this is the link to the Creative Commons licensing page, that explains how Creative Commons content works. (TYPE IN LICENSE INFO) Good job! That was the hard part. Now, I’m going to change the duration of my credits, because I don’t want them to zip by so fast that no one can see what they say. In order to change the duration, hover over the thumbnail for the credits until the small blue box with the gear inside of it appears. Then, go ahead and click on that box. (HOVER OVER CREDITS AND CLICK ON BLUE BOX) A dropdown menu appears. Click on “Clip Adjustments.” (CLICK ON CLIP ADJUSTMENTS) Now, look at where it says “Duration.” Inside of that box, type in a longer period of time than is currently displayed. (TYPE IN A LONGER DURATION TIME) Excellent job! Why don’t you go ahead and preview your slideshow from the beginning to see what it will look like? If you want to see it in fullscreen mode, click on the “play project in fullscreen playback mode” button on the far left side of the window. You can pause this video now and watch your slideshow. Give a cheer! You’ve finished your project. Now, all you need to do is save it. Move ahead to Tutorial 7 to learn about exporting and sharing your production.
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Saving, Exporting and Sharing your Slideshow
Welcome to our final iMovie tutorial: “Saving, Exporting and Sharing your Slideshow.” There are lots of different ways to share the content you have just made. First, you can export the movie to your own storage device. If you have a storage device that you want to use, such as an SD card or flash drive, go ahead and get it now, and pause this tutorial while you insert your device. (WAIT FIVE SECONDS) Now, if you’re ready, get into the iMovie project library. The button is in the upper left corner. (CLICK ON PROJECT LIBRARY) Rightclick on your project. (RIGHTCLICK ON PROJECT) You should see a dropdown menu with several different options. Click on the one that reads, “Export Movie…” (CLICK ON EXPORT MOVIE) You’ll notice that iMovie gives you some size options for your project. A smaller sized production will be saved as smaller file, and will take up less space on your memory device. This is a good option if you are only using your slideshow on a phone or tablet, but it will be very lowresolution when blown up on a computer, TV or projector screen. A larger sized production, like this one down here that is in 1080p, will take up quite a bit of memory, but will look crisp and clear when blown up on a computer screen. (HOVER OVER 1080P OPTION) Choose a file size for your project, and then click on the dropdown list next to the word “Where.” This is where your project will be saved. Select the name of your memory device from the dropdown list. If you just inserted the device, it may take a few moments to show up in this menu. I am not currently using a personal storage device, so I will show you another way to save.Another way to save and share your project is to rightclick on the name of your project in the project library and export it as a Quicktime movie. (RIGHT CLICK ON PROJECT AND CLICK EXPORT USING QUICKTIME) This allows you to change the file type of the movie if you so choose, though most computers have no trouble playing the .MOV and .MP4 formats that iMovie usually uses. (CLICK ON DROPDOWN MENU NEXT TO EXPORT AND SHOW) You can also publish your movie straight to Youtube. Rightclick on your project in the project library and select “Publish to Youtube” from the dropdown list. (SELECT PUBLISH TO YOUTUBE) You’ll notice that in order to do this, you’ll first have to add your Youtube account name and password. Because anyone can use the iMacs, I would recommend not using this option if possible, as the account information will be saved. It can also take an extremely long timesometimes several hoursto upload a file to Youtube, while exporting the movie to personal memory should only take a few minutes. This concludes our iMovie tutorials. Congratulations! You’ve made a beautiful film with iMovie! Give yourself a round of applause.
