Subtitles of the Movie

Now, we have some trimmed video clips. It's time to start making a movie. I've changed the scenery here to show you how to take these clips on to the next stage of the editing process. You'll probably first trim the clips located on the shelf, but once they're trimmed, you need to start creating a story board that is, placing the clips one after the other in the order that they will appear in your movie. The place to do this in iMovie is on the video track. You can drag each clip as it's edited down to the track, or you can multi select several clips and drag them on to the track together. Notice iMovie will place them on the track in the order that they were stored on the shelf. We now have four clips on the video track and you can select each of these clips and edit it further or add a special effect if you need to. Click outside of the clips to deselect them and notice now, the scrub bar has four divisions on it. Each of these represents one of the clips on the track. You can preview all of the four clips by placing the play head at the start of the scrub bar and then pressing the start button. Each clip will play one after the other. This is how you'll preview your movie as it gets longer and longer. A really quick way to jump from one part of your movie to another is to just click at any point above the scrub bar. You will be taken to that exact frame in your movie. This is especially useful when you have many, many clips on the track. To rearrange the order of your clips, you can drag them to the left or to the right. Later on, I'm going to use this clip for my title. So, I am going to drag it now to the left. So, it becomes the first clip. This clip is out of sequence. So, we'll move it to the right. Let's drag a few more clips on to the track. Remember, when you are working in the video track, all of the editing tools are still available. You may need them if you want to tweak a clip as you build up your movie. Also notice that iMovie updates the length of your movie time as you add clips to the video track. If you make a mistake in iMovie, you can always use the undo function by clicking the Apple key and the letter Z. iMovie let's you do this up to 10 times continuously, however, if you need to re-edit a clip, which was edited much earlier, iMovie provides you with an option called restore clip media. To use this, select the clip you wish to re-edit, go to the advance menu, and select restore clipped media. Your clip is now restored to it's original length. You can do this to any clip or any media as long as you haven't emptied the trash can. So, the golden rule is do not empty the trash can until you really have to. Now, a word of warning, iMovie does not have an automatic save function. So, remember to save you project regularly. Get into the habit of saving every couple of minutes by clicking on the Apple and the letter S. I'm now going to show you a couple of advance techniques, which I hope you will find useful. Let's say you want to compare several edited versions of a clip before deciding which one you are going to use. First, scroll to the far left of the video track to find some workspace. Now, make one or several copies of a clip and place them on the video track. You can do this by using copy and paste or by dragging the clip to the track while pressing the alt option key. We now have two clips exactly the same side by side. You could make as many copies as you like. Now, carry out your first edit. Notice the time of the copy remains as the original. Edit the second clip if you wish. Now, click on the first clip and then just outside it. Go to the scrub bar as you can see the play head is located at the start of the edit you have just done, ready for you to preview. To play them one after the other, press the space bar. I now want to cover an important editing technique known as the insert edit. The insert edit is used to cover up a fault in the middle of a video clip or to create a cut away. A cut away is where you want to insert a piece of video into another clip, but keep the original sound track. Here, I have a clip, which has a bad camera shake starting about 3 seconds into the clip. It also lasts for about 3 seconds. So, I want to replace the shake to cover up the problem. I am going to choose this clip of the Greek Temple to fill in the mistake. Although the temple clip is 4 seconds long, iMovie will only use 3 seconds in the insert. This is how it's done. First, select the temple clip, go to the edit menu, and select copy or click the Apple key and the letter C. Now, we'll select the problem clip. Move the play head to just before the start of the shake. Access the crop handles by moving the arrow to just below the scrub bar and pressing the shift key and the mouse button together. Now, drag the right handle to the right until the end of the problem. A Yellow bar now covers the problem area. Move the play head to the start of the yellow strip by clicking there. Finally, go to the advanced menu and select paste over. The new video is now inserted to cover exactly the problem area. We will be covering how to maintain the original soundtrack later on in the audio editing module.