1. Importing footage from your Panasonic digital video camera.
2. Importing footage that you downloaded or have on a disk.
3. Importing photos taken with your digital still camera and saved in iPhoto.
4. Using the Ken Burns Effect for iPhoto pictures or imported pictures.

• Connect the firewire cable to your video camera.

• Load iMovie from the dock.

• Turn your camera on to the VCR mode.

• iMovie will automatically recognize your camera. It will say "Camera Connected" and will switch to camera mode indicated by this slider

• These controls will now control your camera just like a VCR.

• Rewind your tape to where you began filming using this rewind button.

• Click this "Import" button.

• Your film will now begin playing in the monitor widow and will be imported as "clips" in the "options" window.

• Every time you stopped recording while you were filming, iMovie made a new clip. If you filmed long segments without stopping, your film will automatically be broken up into clips around 9 minutes long.

Back to the Table of Contents

• Load iMovie from the dock.

• **If you are importing photos (as opposed to video) you should click on the option "Photos".

• **The Ken Burns effects (zoom, position, and duration options) at the top of this options window will apply to all imported pictures. Click here to see how these effects work.

• Go to the menu bar choose File>Import.

• Navigate to your file and choose "open".

• Your file will be saved as a clip

.

• Back to the Table of Contents

• Click on the option "Photos"

• From this list you should see the album you created in iPhoto. Once you have chosen your album you should see your pictures.

• **The Ken Burns effect (zoom, position, and duration options) at the top of this options window will apply to each picture you bring into your filmstrip. Click here to see how these effects work.

• Drag the picture into the filmstrip.

Back to the Table of Contents

Back to the iMovie Tutorial

• The Ken Burns effect is a zoom effect. You can set how you want your pictures to look when they start playing and how you want them to look when they finish. When applied, the effect will zoom and move your picture gradually from the set starting point to the finishing point. You can set these start and finish points by clicking on these buttons and noticing the position, duration and the zoom setting of your picture in the preview window. How to change these options are discussed next.

• Use this slider to adjust the zoom for either the starting position or the finishing position.

• Use this slider to set the duration of the clip. iMovie displays time in minutes : seconds : frames format (there are 30 frames per second). For example the length 9:06 equals 9 seconds and 6 frames (or about 9.2 seconds).

• You can move the position of your picture in the preview window. Just click and hold on your picture then drag it to the position you want. This allows you to do effects such and starting with your pictured zoomed way in on the bottom right corner and then zoom out until your picture is centered.

Back to importing pictures that you have downloaded or have on disk

Back to importing pictures from iPhoto

Back to the Table of Contents

Back to the iMovie Tutorial