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♪ [music playing throughout- no dialogue] ♪♪.
(female voiceover). Adding a still image
to your project can be accomplished in a
couple of different ways depending on
where the image is stored.
If we go over here to our media browser buttons and if we click
on this camera button, what that's going to do is give us
immediate access to every picture that
we may have in iPhoto.
iPhoto is another program that comes with the iLife Suite along
with iMovie and if you use that program, then you can access all
those pictures just by clicking on this camera
button to show the photo browser.
Now notice, I have a picture right here in iPhoto, so all I
have to do now is click and drag it and drop it in my project
wherever I want it to be.
Now if you don't use iPhoto and you have a JPEG say on a zip
drive or maybe on the hard drive of the computer, what you'll
need to do is go down to the dock, and in the very
lower left hand corner of the dock is a
face and this is called the finder.
I'm going to click on it once and it'll open the window.
Now this will look a little familiar to you if you're a PC
person, basically this is the equivalent of My Computer.
Over here on the left are all your devices that you have
plugged in will be shown.
If you have a zip drive, it will be shown here
and also your hard drive.
So I'll go ahead and navigate to the hard drive and users.
The way this is set up, I have to go under my user profile.
And then once I get to my user profile, I can click on pictures
and low and behold, I have a JPEG here and
that's the exact same JPEG.
So I'll just move this window out of the way and then I'll
click and hold on that JPEG and I'll drag it and drop it right
into the project where I'd like to drop it.
And there it is.
Now I can close my finder window, I'm done with that.
Let me play this back for you because every time you add a
still image, what iMovie does is it adds a Ken Burns Effect,
which is like a slow pan across the picture,
so let me show you that effect.
Let me back this playhead up just a little bit and let me
click the space bar to play it back, now watch
what it does to the picture.
You'll notice just a very slight little pan, okay, now you can
take that off if you don't want that or can exaggerate it if
you'd like more of a pan.
Go ahead and click on the still image and then one of two ways,
either in you blue action wheel, go to 'Cropping Ken Burns and
Rotation' or if you look here on the toolbar, there's the
cropping tool, you can click on that and
it'll get you to the same place.
Now your viewer becomes an editing window and you see now,
the green box is where the video started or where the still image
started when it started play, and by the time it finishes
play, it'll be showing what's in the red box.
Now, I can exaggerate that, I can take the green box and
exaggerate that play back.
This is the preview button right up here next to done; so let me
show you what that looks like.
Or, if I don't want Ken Burns at all, you'll notice up on the
left here there's three buttons, those are
the three different crop options.
If I just want to fit the picture as-is, no edits, I would
click on 'Fit.' If I want to crop it, then I get a box and I
can determine what's seen.
So I can crop it, I just have to grab one of the corners and then
reposition with my hand in the middle.
It does force you to maintain aspect ratio so you don't have
complete control over cropping.
Or you can do Ken Burns, like what I just showed you.
So those are your options with cropping still images.
Something new to iMovie 11 is that you can add the Ken Burns
effect to video clips.
Once you're done making your edits, just simply choose done,
and you're finished.
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