Subtitles of the Movie

Now moving on down, immediately below the effects button is the hard disk monitor. This is a very important feature because it not only tells you which hard disk or partition you are using, but how much space you have left on it. It even changes color as your hard disk fills up. When it changes to red, you are close to full and you'll need to empty the Trash can, which is here. Next door, the Trash can is a unique feature of iMovie. As you edit your clips, the deleted material is transferred to the Trash can. The MB number here on the right shows you just how much is in the trash and, of course, it increases as you edit and delete unwanted material. You can empty the Trash can at any time and this will result in freeing up some of your valuable hard disk space, along the bottom of the iMovie window up to long tracks. The one showing now is the video track and this is where you'll assemble all of your video clips and rearrange them in any order you'd like. When you play these clips from the track they'll play one after the other. At the top of this track, iMovie provides you with some very useful information about the status of your project. First, the title of your project is shown here in bold type. Next, you'll see the current length of your movie. This time, we'll increase as you add clips to the video track. Here, you are shown that the format you are working in is either NTSCO Pal and next, the name of the current clip you are working on followed by the length of that clip. Below the video track is a blue scroll bar, which you drag to the right to move further down the track. Now, if you click on this icon denoted by the clock, the timeline opens. This is probably the most complicated work area in iMovie. Here, you can control the video and the audio clips in your movie. However, notice there are three tracks: the top track holds the video and audio of the original clips. The middle track, the one with the speaker one icon is where you will place your audio special effects and any dialog you record. The bottom track with the speaker two icon is where you can record and place music which you may want to use either as background or for atmosphere. Notice, to the right of these tracks are three check marks. If you deselect these, you'll switch off the sound for that track. This is very useful if you want to concentrate on just editing one audio track at a time. At the bottom of these tracks are three more elements, from left to right. Now, the bar which says auto times is called the zoom bar. If you click on it, the numbers get higher and as you select a higher number the width of the clip, you'll see here get longer. This will help you to edit clips right down to a single frame. Next, the bar, which has faster, slower is the control for adding slow motion or for speeding up your video clips. This is a terrific feature as these are added in real time. This is another iMovie first. Finally, this last item is a slide bar. It controls the sound level of each clip on each track, or all of the clips on a single track, more about that later, and finally, here we have a fade-in, fade-out facility.