iMovie'11 is the preinstalled program coming with any new purchase Macs. It provides a simple yet professional way to make slideshow movies from your photos, videos, music and your talent. It's the right tool to tell stories on Mac. With iMovie, you can create high quality shows to play on YouTube, TV, iPhone, iPod and more. Many people use iMovie to share their photos taken on wedding, vacation and family reunion. Also make your own iMovie slidleshows by following your amazing ideas. In this article, iMovie'11 is used for example.
iMovie includes lots of themes for you to create professional slideshow movies in clicks. But for a beginner, it's better to get started with no theme to learn using iMovie. If you are a slideshow theme addict, Fantashow also provides dazzling themes, which is a good complement to iMovie, but with easier workflow and faster performance.
Make iMovie Slideshow from iPhoto Library
iMovie works seamlessly with iPhoto. You are suggested to drag and drop photos from iPhoto to iMovie project. If no any library exists in iPhoto, create one and import photos to iPhoto first. To add videos, you could go to either "File/Import" or Event Library, and then drag and drop selected videos to the timeline.
After photos and videos are imported to iMovie slideshow project, you can preview the raw slideshow simply by pressing Space bar on your keyboard. And then make adjustments to clips and transitions. For example, mouse over one clip or "double arror" button and click on the settings icon, then you could access clip adjustment, video adjustment, transition adjustment, etc.
iMovie Slideshow with Ken-Burns Effects
Ken Burns is a documentary filmmaker who is well known for the special effects he added to the documentary movie - mainly pan and zoom effects. In iMovie, simply click the the Crop-like button under the preview windows to rotate, crop and add Ken-burns effects to your slideshow. It brings your slideshow to life and blows away others.
Add Music to iMovie Slideshow
Music set the tone of your slideshow. Adding musing to iMovie slideshow is just as simple as adding photos and videos. So click the audio icon in the bottom right corder, and drag and drop desired audio file to the timeline. Multiple songs could be added into iMovie. However, iMovie doesn't support multiple soundtracks. If necessary, you need to combine multiple song tracks with external audio editor before importing to iMovie slideshow. You can also apply audio effects and filter sound using an equalizer.
Export Your iMovie Slideshow
iMovie makes sharing possibility endless. For those who upload their videos online, iMovie allows users directly upload to MobileMe Gallery, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, CNN iReport, etc. To burn iMovie slideshow to DVD, first export to iDVD and continue editing or burning your slideshow with iDVD. If you select to share iMovie slideshow using Media Browser, you will get slideshow appeared in other Mac applications like iWeb or iDVD. It's a good idea to export iMovie slideshow to iTunes so that you can playback slideshow easily and quickly sync with your mobile devices like iPhone, iPod and iPad.
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