iMovie-directions

=**U.S. History 1850 to the Present**= =**i-Movie Projects**=

**How to:**
Start - bring up i-Movie. Go to the file menu and open new project. Name your project using your decade AND your names.

Pictures must be jpeg format. Find relevant photos to use. YOU MUST SAVE THEM USING .jpg at the end. If it's not a jpeg photo it'll give you a warning. If it's a picture you must have, you can convert it (http://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-jpg). When you use the website to convert, it'll bring up the download box and you'll see what's it's finished. You drag the photo from the download box onto the desktop so it's there.

To put pics in, you need to use i-Photo. Open the program then go to file and click import to import the jpg photo into i-Photo. Once it's there you can bring up i-Movie and drag the photo into the appropriate slot in i-Movie.

The T button on i-Movie is to add text. Simply find the text you want and drag it into the movie if you want text only or over the picture to add text to a picture. Highlighting the text and clicking command + will make the text bigger while command - makes it smaller.

If you want to adjust your photo, put the curser over the photo in i-Movie, click the blue arrow to bring up the sub-menu. Click clip adjustments to make it longer or shorter in duration (all clips are defaulted to be 4 seconds long). Use the Ken Burns cropping to adjust what parts of the pictures are seen.

To add music, the songs need to be put into i-Tunes first. They must be in mp3 format. There are sites to convert YouTube an mp3.

To add video, you must go up to file (in i-Movie), click import movie then from file and select the file. It'll put the video (must be mp4) into the events section in i-Movie. Find it and highlight it and highlight the part you want then drag it into the appropriate spot in i-Movie.

Sites to convert YouTube to mp3 or mp4: http://www.clipconverter.cc/ http://www.youtube2file.com/

If you want to do a voice over...record your voice explaining what is happening, click on the microphone on i-Movie. Space bar will begin the countdown for you to record and space bar stops the recording.

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