11.6. Editing Digital-Camera MoviesTo edit your camera-captured movies, open iMovie (the video-editing component of your iLife suite). Click the Media button and then the Photos tab, so that you can see all your iPhoto picturesand all your iPhoto movie clips. Drag the clips you want right into your timeline. (Or, if iPhoto is running, drag the movies' thumbnails right out of iPhoto's window and into iMovie's timeline or Clips panel. ) The end. All right, there's a little more to itlike learning how to use iMoviebut that's a different book. The point here is that you can incorporate movies from iPhoto's library in whatever iMovie project you have open, ready to edit as you would any other clips. Tip: Want a great way to organize your camera's movies all at once? Create a new smart album as described in Chapter 5. Set it up so that the pop-up menus and text boxes in the New Smart Album dialog box say "Title" "ends with" ".mov" (or ".avi," depending on how your digital camera names its movie files). You'll always find all your movies safely collected in this self-updating smart album. 11.6.1. Editing Digital-Camera Movies in QuickTime Player ProIf learning iMovie seems like overkill for some little projectif all you want to do is combine a few into one longer flick, for exampleyou can get by with nothing more than QuickTime Player Pro. Suppose, for example, that you want to combine two movies called Clip A and Clip B. Open both of them by double-clicking their thumbnails in iPhoto. Then follow along with this quick refresher that covers the basic editing techniques for this project:
Tip: If your digital camera captures video at 640 x 480 pixels (that's full-screen TV size ), you can add video to your exported slideshows. To do so, export an instant slideshow as described in Section 11.2.1, taking care to save the result at 640 x 480 pixels. Open the exported slideshow in QuickTime Player Pro, along the desired movie clip. Using the Select, Copy, and Add commands described above, you can now create presentations beyond anything you ever expected possible from iPhoto. |