How to Edit Videos in iMovie?

iMovie provides a fast and intuitive way of editing clips of footage together, adding titles and sound effects and sharing the resultant project via websites such as YouTube or portable devices such as iPhones and iPods. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. This instruction teaches you the step by step guide on how to edit videos with iMovie on Mac for free.

1Create a Project

Before doing anything in iMovie, you must create and title a new default folder as well as title and save our new project.

2Import video clips

Connect your camera and make sure it is in PLAY (VCR) mode. When your viewer says "Camera Connected," click the "Import" button. iMovie will play and import your digital video. When you wish to stop importing, click the "Import" button once more. Drag your imported clip(s) from the clips pane to the editable timeline along the bottom of the iMovie interface. iMovie treats deleted files differently that most other programs. If you delete a clip you CANNOT get it back.

3Edit your video clips

The most common edit is crop. Select the clip in the viewer. Set the little arrowheads at each end in the movie monitor, and drag them to where you want your video clip to be cropped. The area in blue will be removed; the area in gold will remain. From the Edit menu, select Crop.

4Add titles and music

Click the Editing Pane button, and click Titles. The title list appears. Select the kind of title you want, type the title into the text box. To add music to a project, just click the Music and Sound Effects button below the Viewer (a musical note icon).

5 Export the movie project

Select Share > iTunes from the menu to export the project for playback on iTunes compatible devices like iPod/iPhone etc. Or choose Share > YouTube… to export to YouTube.

If you wanna export MOV from iMovie, you can choose Share>‘Export using QuickTime while an mov file extension comes from QuickTime.

Editor Recommend:

Considering the restricted video formats that iMovie supports, here recommend you Aimersoft Video Studio Express for Mac, with which you can never worry about the video format problem.