iMovie HD
Digital Video and OS X - Digital Hub
Digital Camcorders
Apple Digital Video Camera List
http://www.apple.com/imovie/compatibility/camcorder.html
http://www.apple.com/imovie/compatibility/camera.html
iMovie Notes
- Firewire cables
- Types of Media - DV Tapes --> don’t switch around
- Hard Drive Space - you need lots!!!
- Best to use a separate partition or drive as it gets fragmented easily.
- One minute of DV footage uses about 220 MB of hard disk space.
A four minute iMovie that contains sound tracks, transitions, and titles may use 4 to 6 gigabytes of disk space.
iMovie Window
- Monitor
- Timeline
- Shelf
New in iMovie
- Edit multiple clips and transitions at once
- Trim clips directly in the Timeline without losing your original footage
- Sync video and audio with alignment guides
- Use an iSight camera to import live video directly into iMovie
- Share movies using email, .Mac HomePage, DVDs or Bluetooth devices
- Keep track of key frames in your Timeline with bookmarks
Improved in iMovie
- Render motion effects, video effects, transitions and Ken Burns pan and zoom effects more quickly
- Edit audio with graphical waveforms and scrubbing
- Use enhanced transitions and titles
Creating a New Project
Location: Where Are Your Movies Stored?
- Users/Your Home Directory/Movies/
Four Stages of a Project:
- Planning
- Production and Filming
- Post-Production and Editing
- Sharing
Stage One: Planning
The Director in the Classroom
http://www.thedirectorintheclassroom.com
Storyboarding
- Plan your story
- Who is your audience?
- What is your purpose?
- What is the story you are trying to tell?
- What will my audience learn from my production?
- How will I tell my story?
- Will my production entertain, inform, or demonstrate?
- Storyboard template
Digital Storytelling - Online Resources
Center for Digital Storytelling
http://www.storycenter.org/
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
The Digital Drive-in
http://www.nextexit.com/drivein/driveinframeset.html
Seven Elements - Digital Storytelling Cookbook
http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/cookbook.html
- A Point of View
- A Dramatic Question
- Emotional Content
- The Gift of Your Voice
- The Power of the Soundtrack
- Economy
- Pacing
Finding your story - Digital Storytelling Center
http://www.storycenter.org/
- Personal Stories
- Character Stories
- Memorial Stories
- Adventure Stories
- Accomplishment Stories
- Stories about Place
- Work Stories
- Recovery Stories
- Love Stories
Stage Two: Production and Filming
Capturing Footage
- Using a Tripod
- Compostion of Footage - Think like a director
- Zooming and Panning
- Audio is Crucial -
- Great Video + Poor Sound = No one watches
- Larry Bottjen’s Videography Tips
http://www.asdk12.org/depts/itech/profdev/videography/index.htm
Stage Three: Post-Production
Basic Steps
1. Import video clips to the shelf.
2. Edit the clips.
3. Place edited clips into the movie timeline.
4. Add transitions, titles, effects, audio/sound, and chapters.
5. Export the movie.
Importing Clips
- Importing still photos
- Importing digital video
- The Clip Shelf
- Hard Disk Usage & Trash
Editing Movie Clips
- Clip Viewer & Timeline Viewer
- Arranging Clips
- Length of time for still photos
- Ken Burns effect for still photos
- Cropping Clips, Splitting Clips, Copying and Pasting Clips
Adding Titles
- Fonts, size, and color
- Over the picture or over black
- Speed & Pause - Watch the times
- If putting a title over the picture, make sure the length of the title is LESS than the length of the photo or clip.
Add Transitions
-
Rendering
Add Audio Effects
- Importing background music from iTunes
- Adding sound effects
- Adding voice narration
- Adjusting clip volume levels
Free Play Music
Freeplay Music has a large "free" broadcast music production library. You can download instrumental music files to use in educational projects. See the terms of use on the site.
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
Add Visual FX and Audio FX
Add Chapter Markers for iDVD
Stage Four: Sharing Your Movies
- Exporting Movies to Quicktime
- Web
- CD
- Full Quality DV
- Export to iDVD - Show a collection of your movies
- Transfer your movie back to your DV camera and then to VHS videotape
- Transfer your movie back to your DV camera for archiving
- Publish online with iWeb
iMovie Extra Effects
iMovie Plugins
There are many available if you do a search for iMovie.
Gee Three
http://www.geethree.com/
eZedia
http://www.ezedia.com/products/eZedia_plug-ins/
Virtix Video Effects
http://www.virtix.com/
CSB-Digital
http://fxhome.com/iplugins2/
BKMS Plugins for iMovie
http://plugins.bkms.com/
Stupendous Software - iMovie Plugins
http://www.stupendous-software.com
iMovie HD Help
iMovie Help Guide in the Help Menu
Apple Website/ Apple -iLife-iMovie
http://www.apple.com/imovie/
iMovie Support
http://www.info.apple.com/usen/imovie/
Apple Discussions - iMovie
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@195.FIX1ahfDovX.0@.ee6bcd9
iMovie Tutorials - Atomic Learning Library
http://atomiclearning.com/freeimovie.shtml
Free Online Tutuorial – Atomic Learning Library:
http://atomiclearning.com/imovie
The Unofficial iMovie FAQ
http://danslagle.dvmix.com/mac/iMovie/index.htm
MacWorld: Home - Movie Magic
http://www.macworld.com/2000/04/features/homemovies/
iMovie Resources:
http://nm009.k12.sd.us/iMovieResources.htm
iMovie Tips & Techniques
http://www.apple.com/education/dv/tips.html
TutorGig - iMovie Tutorials
http://www.tutorgig.com/showurls.jsp?group=6562&index=0
There are many, many more sites connected with iMovie.
Just do a search in Google.
iMovie Books
Carlson, Jeff. iMovie HD and iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: (Visual Quickstart Guide), Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA, 2005 ISBN: 0-321-33542-2
http://www.peachpit.com
Pogue, David. iMovie HD and iDVD 5: The Missing Manual, Pogue Press, O'Reilly, 2005
ISBN: 0-596-10033-7
http://www.missingmanual.com
Carlson, Jeff. iMovie & iDVD 4 For Mac OS X (Visual Quickstart Guide), Peachpit Press, Berkeley, CA, 2004
ISBN: 0-321-24663-2
http://www.peachpit.com
iLife ‘04 - The Missing Manual by David Pogue
(online digital update to a popular book)
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/excerpt/iLife04_MiniManual.pdf
Online Educational iMovie Resources
Apple Learning Interchange
http://ali.apple.com/
Apple Learning Interchange - iLife
http://www.apple.com/education/ilife/
iLife Lessons
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/ilife.shtml
Apple Education iMovie Gallery
http://www.apple.com/education/dv/gallery/index.html
iMovie Example Matrix
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/
Educational Uses of iMovie
http://driscoll.brookline.mec.edu/iMovieworkshop/driscollduses.html
Teach with Movies.org
http://teachwithmovies.org/
Educational Uses
Educational Uses of iMovie
Video Documentation of units of study, field trips, etc.
Teaching Tools:
How to do something/Teach Me Something
Assessment
Children’s Portfolios
Storyboarding
Sequencing
Other Ideas from "Educational Uses and Ideas" website
http://fusion.umsl.edu/tlc/educast/curriculum/ed_uses.htm
This link is no longer working. --October 2003
- School or Class Orientation
- Student or Teacher Portfolios
- School Events - cultural or athletic
- School or Class News Broadcasts
- School or Class Video Yearbook
- Personalized Video Lessons
- Real or Mock Interviews/Press Conferences
- Video Self Modeling
- Neighborhood studies i.e. architecture, shapes
- Recording 1x classroom events for multiple viewings i.e. different experiments
- Public Service Announcements
- Inquiry Events
- Expert Talks
- Professional Development/Teacher reflection
- Problem solving scenarios
- How to
- Parent Communication
- Skits
- Puppet Show
- Talk over a scene
- Training Tape
- Booktalks
- Animation
- Field Trips
iMovie Contests
ASTE iDidaMovie
http://www.aste.org/index.cfm/1,51,125,html
