Subtitles of the Movie

If you are going to use iMovie often, I would make an alias of the iMovie icon and place it on your Desktop. This will save you the task of searching through layers or folders when you need to open iMovie. Before you open iMovie, connect your camcorder to your computer using the Firewire cable. If you have an external monitor, connect it using the analog output cables supplied with your camera to the input ports on the monitor. I'd like to stress once again that an external monitor is a really useful addition to your setup. Now, turn on your camcorder and your external monitor open iMovie by double clicking the alias icon. iMovie will always open up in the latest project that you are working on. You now have three choices, continue working on the current project, open a previous project, or open a new project. When you open a new project, you must immediately name the project. Now, you must locate the hard disk where you'll save the project. If you have more than one hard disk or more than one hard disk partition, choose one that has enough space for your project. Notice that iMovie creates a folder called fish project. Open this folder and you'll see that there's a project icon called fish and a folder called media. iMovie creates a link between the project and the media folder and maintaining this link is critical. Do not rename the media folder because all of the video clips you capture, all of the stills, audio effects, and music clips that you create will be stored here. If you save them anywhere else, iMovie may loose the link and you'll find them missing from your project. We'll come back to this folder later to show you how and where all of the media is stored. For now remember, everything you create should be kept in the project folder. Before we start to capture some video clips, we need to select the preferences for this project. Go to the edit menu and select preferences. As you can see, we've opened a window with four tabs. The input tab asks you to choose where your video clips should be stored after capture, either on the shelf or move directly to the video track. Choose shelf. The playback tab allows you to choose the quality of the images. You'll see on your computer screen. You can choose between a smoother image or a sharper image. The quality you see depends largely on the speed of your processor and the amount of memory you've allocated to iMovie. For now, select smoother. However, if you have an external monitor, you'll be able to see everything at full quality. Click on the views tab and you'll be able to select what information is visible in iMovie. Select thumbnails in the timeline to show a picture of the video clip in the audio timeline. Deselect short time codes to determine whether the frame information is shown with the time code data. Selecting show more details will provide additional information in the clip on the audio timeline and finally, deselecting show locked audio only, will show a thumbtack icon to indicate if an external audio clip is locked to a video clip, more about this later. The advanced tab will allow you to select some very useful options. First, extract audio in paste over will allow you to do insert edits. I'll be covering this later. Filter audio from camera removes extraneous clicks and pops, which can be recorded during your capture. Video playback through camera allows you to preview all of your clips on the external monitor or your camcorders fold out monitor window. This will be done at full quality. I advise you to select all three of these options. We can now begin to capture some video into iMovie.