Apple iMovie '08 - Manual (Page 8)

8 Chapter 1 Welcome to iMovie ’08
What You’ll Learn
To learn how to get video into iMovie, and then organize, sort, and manage it, follow
the quick tutorial that begins in Chapter 2.You’ll learn how to do the following:
 Import video into iMovie
 Organize your video into Events
 Mark your favorite segments for easy retrieval
 Mark segments you don’t like for deletion
 Enhance the sound in your video
 Crop excess background to create a close-up shot
 Create a video slideshow
 Add a photo with pan and zoom effects (the Ken Burns effect)
 Share your finished movie
Before You Begin
You may choose to print this document before you start or keep this PDF file open on
your desktop while you work. Note that you don’t have to complete the tutorial in one
sitting. Skip the parts you don’t want to tackle today and focus on the parts you most
want to learn.
In many tasks shown here and in iMovie Help, you need to choose commands from the
menus in the menu bar. Menu commands look like this:
Choose Edit > Copy.
The first term after Choose is the name of a menu in the iMovie menu bar. The next
term is the item you choose from that menu.
What You Need
To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need the following:
 Digital video on one of the devices listed in the table on page 7, or video stored on
your computer’s hard disk or an external hard disk connected to your computer with
a FireWire cable.
 At least several gigabytes (GB) of storage space available on your computer’s hard
disk or on an external hard disk connected by a FireWire cable. (The amount you’ll
need depends on the video file format you’re using. Check the instructions for
importing video from your recording device for more detail.)
If you don’t have any video available, you can still create a slideshow using photos
from your iPhoto library. Experiment and have fun as you learn how to get started
with iMovie.