To split a clip, just right-click the point in the clip on the timeline where you want to split it and choose Split Clip. You can split the clip into multiple clips and trim out the parts you don't want. If you've got an overly long clip, you might lose your audience's interest by the end of it. Double-click the photo in the timeline and then you can tweak the start and end points for the Ken Burns effect. You can change the duration of the photo by clicking on one of its edges in the timeline and sliding it - just as you would when trimming a video clip. To add a photo, click Photo Library in the Libraries section along the left edge and then drag photos to the timeline as you would a video clip.īy default, photos are given a duration of four seconds along with the Ken Burns treatment. You can add photos to your movie to break up the video clips, which can make the proceedings a bit more interesting. Click the check mark button in the top right to apply your changes.

Select Crop to Fill or Ken Burns and drag to select the portion of the clip in the preview window that you want to crop. To zoom in on a clip, highlight the clip in your timeline and then click the crop button above the preview window in the top right. You can even use the Ken Burns pan-and-zoom effect, but I find that's better suited to still photos than videos. iMovie lets you zoom in on a portion of the frame. If you've got a clip that you wish you had zoomed in on when recording, all is not lost. Your iPhone can capture video at a resolution of 720p, 1080p or 4K, so you've got pixels to spare if you are creating a movie to share online (and not watch on an HDTV).

Here are some tips and tricks to start you on the road to becoming an iMovie master. For a consumer-grade video editor, the MacOS app is fairly complex.

IMovie for MacOS can be daunting to the amateur iPhone ( $295 at Amazon) videographer.

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