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iMovie '11

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iMovie ’11 helps you turn ordinary home videos into captivating Hollywood-style trailers that are fun to watch and share. You can choose from fifteen trailer templates including Adventure, Romantic Comedy, and Epic Drama, each with its own unique titles, graphics, and cinematic soundtrack. iMovie also includes powerful new tools that make it easy to selectively adjust audio levels and apply sophisticated visual effects like flash and hold, instant replay, and jump cuts with a single click. People Finder analyzes your videos and marks sections containing faces, so you can quickly find the perfect clips for your trailer or movie. And iMovie ’11 adds new themes that make your videos look like professionally-produced news or sports programs.

Movie Trailers

• Choose from 15 movie trailer templates, each with its own original soundtrack and graphics.

• Select the best video for your trailer with the help of animated drop zones.

• Customize character names, titles, credits, and more.

• View beautifully-rendered movie posters when sharing your trailer to iTunes and Apple devices.

• Convert your trailer to a project to take advantage of the full set of iMovie editing tools.

All-new audio editing

• View detailed, color-coded audio waveforms for all your clips.

• Drag the volume bar to adjust the level of a clip or selection.

• Drag fade edges to shorten or extend fades.

• Choose from 19 fun audio effects that transform the sound of your movie.

• Fine-tune your soundtrack with noise reduction controls and a 10-band audio equalizer.

One-Step Effects

• Select from nine visual effects with over a dozen variations.

• Create custom slow motion, fast forward, and instant replay effects.

• Enhance your movie with unique effects such as rewind or flash and hold.

• Instantly transition part of a clip to black & white, sepia, or dream haze.

• Add jump cuts or flip effects that match the beat of your music.

People Finder

• Automatically find and label all portions of your video that contain people’s faces.

• Detect the number of individuals in each shot – from a single person to two people to a group.

• Detect close-ups, medium shots, and wide shots of people.

• Filter your video based on number of people and shot type.

• Use People Finder with movie trailers to quickly find the right footage.

News and Sports themes

• Use the News theme to give your video the look of a broadcast news show.

• Apply the Sports theme to turn your sports video into a polished, TV-style highlight reel.

• Add your own player photos, team logos, and statistics to any Sports theme movie.

• Customize the look of your themed video by mixing and matching themed titles and transitions.

More ways to share

• Export to iTunes and watch on your iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Apple TV.

• Publish to YouTube, Vimeo, and MobileMe Gallery.

• Share with friends on Facebook.

• Upload newsworthy video to CNN iReport.

• Easily export your HD video at beautiful 1080p resolution.

AVCHD video from supported video cameras requires a Mac with an Intel Core Duo processor or better. 

Some features and third-party services require Internet access and/or MobileMe; additional fees and terms apply. MobileMe is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual subscription fee and Internet access required. Terms of service apply.

Third-party services may not be available in all languages or in all countries. Use of these services requires Internet access and may require you to accept additional terms.


Macworld Rating

4.5 out of 5 Mice, Oct 27, 2010

Pros

  • Improved audio editing
  • Fun Movie Trailers, which can be converted to projects
  • Support for 24p footage
  • One-Step Effects automate repetitive edits
  • Side-by-Side and Blue Screen edit options
  • Rolling Shutter fix (results vary depending on footage)
  • Single-Row View brings back traditional timeline

Cons

  • Interlaced video still hampered by single-field processing
  • No native AVCHD editing or direct import
  • Pre-processing and import transcoding can be time-consuming

Software Details

  • Apple
  • 9.0.4
  • 585.02 MB
  • 10.20.10
  • $14.99
  • 4

Buy in Mac App Store

Macworld's iMovie '11 Coverage

  • iMovie '11 iMovie '11 has some standout features that show off its capabilities, like Movie Trailers, long-awaited sound editing, and One-Step Effects. But there are also plenty of other enhancements indicating that this release has depth and character, like the return of a traditional timeline in Single-Row View, a fix for rolling shutter artifacts, the People Finder feature, and more. Here's Jeff Carlson's review.
  • How to time-stamp your video in iMovie Sometimes you just need that video to have a time stamp. If so, Jeff Carlson walks you through some simple steps.
  • Creative audio workarounds in iMovie for iOS These techniques go a long way toward making the process of working with audio easier in iMovie's mobile app.
  • Import camera videos directly into iMovie '11 Instead of taking a trip through iPhoto, it is possible to import movies created with still cameras directly into iMovie '11.
  • Create a sports highlight in iMovie '11 iMovie's Sports theme gives you the tools to create your own sports video channel.
  • Tips and tricks for iMovie transitions Transitions can lend needed context to your videos. Jeff Carlson walks us through the basics of setting up transitions in iMovie '11.
  • Staying sane while shooting video on the fly Last week, as part of our Macworld 2011 coverage, we put together a series of videos highlighting unique and interesting products on the show floor. Though the tools for shooting and editing have gotten better in the last few years, it remains a challenge to figure out how to put these pieces together on the fly, as so many things can (and will) go wrong. Here are a few tips we've found that work (and that don't) when shooting video on a show floor.
  • Mastering iMovie trailers iMovie trailers offer more than what appears on the surface, including a way to use the trailer as a starting point for a larger project. Jeff Carlson takes you through the steps.
  • Expo Notes: Miraizon announces Cinematize 3 Pro Cinematize 3 Pro features enhanced preview and batch extraction with an easier workflow and better performance.
  • Apple updates iMovie '11, Brother drivers Apple on Thursday released two updates that Snow Leopard users might be interested in, one for iMovie '11 and the other for Brother printers and scanners.
  • Apple releases iMovie, GarageBand '11 updates Two small updates to iMovie '11 and GarageBand '11 tackle a variety of bugs and odd behavior, including video stabilization, Facebook authentication, and various performance improvements.
  • 2010 in review: The year for creatives It's been a busy year for creative folks at every level, what with the release of Adobe's CS5, Apple's iLife '11, an intensified focus on video, and more.
  • First look: iMovie '11 iMovie ’11 offers more than just flashy movie trailers to Mac video editors.
  • Summary: Apple previews OS X Lion, updates iLife and MacBook Air The focus was on the Mac Wednesday, as Apple previewed the next major version of its Mac OS X operating system. But that wasn't the only news to come out of Cupertino, as Apple also released an updated iLife suite, new MacBook Air models, and a desktop version of FaceTime
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