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This course shows budding videographers how to create a family vacation video with the friendly tools in iMovie '11. It illustrates some basic camera techniques and strategies to use when recording video and how to edit the footage together to create an entertaining, fast-paced highlights reel. Author Abba Shapiro, an award-winning producer and director, also demonstrates how to grab the viewer's attention, organize and edit the footage, and add music, transitions, and still pictures to round out your story. The final chapters show how to improve the look and pacing of your videos with special effects, such as themes, picture-in-picture effects, and freeze frames.
Topics include:

    Capturing the moment
    Adjusting settings in iMovie
    Cutting and editing the video
    Reducing background noise
    Adding and mixing music
    Cropping or fitting a photo to the video frame
    Correcting color
    Stabilizing shaky video
    Creating a split screen
    Changing video speed