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  • Started 10 years ago by SRD
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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    i'm sure i'm missing something easy and obvious, but...

    when i'm in i-movie how do i make a video clip?

    eg I have my 7 minutes long commute ride, but i want to just save the 30 sec of the guy doing track stands and send it to youtube.

    i know this is ridiculously basic, but I cannot see what i am supposed to do.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  2. Instography
    Member

    Have you got the video into iMovie? If so, you should have three panes - your raw footage, a larger playback window and an empty area where you drag clips. To create a clip, click at the start point and drag along the length of the clip you want to create. A yellow box should surround the clip. You can trim the start and end points by grabbing the thicker ends of the clip and dragging them backward or forward as you need. When you've got it the length you want, click and hold and then drag the clip into the empty space at the bottom. You can keep doing that, placing one clip at the end of the previous and then you can drag transitions into the spaces to join the clips together. That's the most basic way to do it.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  3. SRD
    Moderator

    woo. thanks insto. knew it must be something bleedingly obvious!

    Posted 10 years ago #
  4. SRD
    Moderator

    and here's the result: http://youtu.be/W2y8r159--A?list=UUG_9VwNEoPqmppGJhAWnTfg

    now to figure out how to silence the audio...

    Posted 10 years ago #
  5. LaidBack
    Member

    Good video clip - makes its point!
    Taxi federation will find it useful.

    Sound can be muted on iMovie by pulling sound levels down to zero. You'll see an audio spectrum below each clip. Just pull down to make sound less or zero.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  6. Roibeard
    Member

    @SRD - I've pointed out the yellow lines to a parked taxi at this point, and got the usual shrug response.

    Perhaps forwarding it to the hospital might make a difference?

    Robert

    Posted 10 years ago #
  7. Instography
    Member

    Audio - there's a few things you can do. As well as LB's tip, in the big preview screen there's a little volume button. Click on that and click on the little speaker (between Auto and the volume slider) to mute everything. The slider will change the volume of all clips.

    In the editor - the bottom pane - you can select all (cmd-A) right click on any clip and separate the audio from the video (Detach Audio) and then, rather than mute it, delete it completely to reduce the size of the file.

    Good clip by the way.

    Posted 10 years ago #
  8. SRD
    Moderator

    Thanks. Yesterday whenever I tried to click on the audio button it was greyed out. Today it worked. Dunno.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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