Slow Motion and Fast Motion in iMovie

Speeding up or slowing down a clip is a simple process in iMovie—once you know how to do it.

Start by clicking on or mousing over a clip in your timeline, to reveal the little blue icon with a white gear.

Select “Clip Adjustments” from the dropdown menu.

This will open a gray window with a lot of options, which are worth exploring to discover new ways of fine-tuning your movie and achieving complex effects.

You may see this in the middle of the window:

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12 Cool Tips and Tricks for iMovie ’11

iLife ’11 is here, and with it comes a host of slick new features for iMovie, including a simple way to create your own Movie Trailers, all-new audio editing, one-step Effects, People Finder and Sports & News Themes. But those are just the marquee features to get everyone excited -- what about the smaller details that might make your daily use of iMovie ’11 a real pleasure?

Thankfully, your faithful friends at MacLife.com have torn the shrink wrap off a copy of iLife ’11 and put the new iMovie under the microscope, looking for the little things that Apple might not consider show-stopping features, but that both new and veteran users alike might appreciate.

Get Your Touch On
Apple may not feel that touchscreen computers are in its future, but they aren’t shy about adding multitouch gestures to their desktop apps for laptop users and those of us rocking a Magic Trackpad. iMovie ’11 is no exception, and features a trio of such gestures.

The first multitouch tip enables adding new media to your Project, which is done by first selecting a clip (or portion of a clip) in the Event browser and then using three fingers to swipe up on the trackpad. Just like magic, your selection is now added to the end of your project.

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How To Rotate Videos using Windows Movie Maker

While taking still photos using cameras and mobiles, we rotate the device between landscape and portrait mode to get the best from the scene. While viewing on the camera, we can easily tilt the device and view the photos correctly but when we transfer it to computer, we have to rotate them for the best experience.

Sometimes while shooting videos people make a mistake of shooting them in portrait mode and when they transfer them to computer, watching them is literally a pain in the neck. Well, the good news is that rotating videos is as easy as rotating a photo, you just need to use the right tool.

Rotating Videos

To rotate a video open Window Movie Maker and import a video to it. The video will be analyzed and expanded in the timeline view. Now all you need to do is select the video and press the rotate button located on the toolbar. You can rotate the video to left or to right. Clicking a mode twice will turn the video upside down.

Now that was how you can rotate the full video.

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Choosing how you’re seen on YouTube

Maybe you’ve outgrown that username cutepuppies99, which seemed like such a good idea at the time. Or perhaps your friends are missing out on your mad origami skills, because they don’t know you are the genius behind origamiboy1981.

Starting today we’re giving you the ability to change how you appear on YouTube, with the option to use your Google+ profile on your YouTube channel. One Google-wide identity was something that proved popular with new YouTube users when we began offering it in March, so we are now extending it to existing users.

This is your identity, so you’re in the driver’s seat. First off, your name. If you are currently YouTube user joeysam87, you can now appear as Joey Samson, the full name from your Google+ profile (with an actual space in the middle!), along with any photo you uploaded: 

Next step, your past activity. Maybe you posted a few things way back (all those “I love you Biebs!!” comments?) that you’d rather not associate with publicly. By clicking “Review my content,” you can see every video, comment or playlist you’ve ever posted, and decide whether you want it associated with your full name before making the change:

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Edit your videos with YouTube

Until now, when you uploaded to YouTube, your video was hosted and shared, but couldn’t really be changed. If you wanted to trim off the end, swap out the soundtrack, or add an effect, you had to edit your video using a separate program and upload again.

Starting today, you can edit your uploaded videos right on YouTube and maintain the same video IDs. This means you keep your view count and comments, and all existing links to your video will continue to work. No re-uploading necessary!

Here’s how it works: just click Edit video on the video’s page or on your My Videos page:

You can stabilize your hand-held footage, rotate a video, and boost the contrast and colors. Try “I’m Feeling Lucky” for 1-click color correction:

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How to Use Windows Movie Maker As a Video Cutter

Windows Movie Maker is an excellent tool to work on videos and the best part is that it’s free! Obviously, you can’t compare it to the advanced tools like Sony Vegas or Adobe Movie Maker but if you are looking for some basic, in fact more than just basic video editing then Windows Movie Maker will not disappoint you.

Previously we have discussed how you can quickly create a movie from your photos using the Movie Maker tool and today I will tell you another out of the box idea that you can use the movie maker for: using it as a video cutter.

So lets see how you can use the Movie Maker as a video cutter to cut out a segment from any video. You know that movie scene you always want to play repeatedly or that part of the speech in a talk. Better to separate them in a separate video file so that you could play and share them easily no?

Before you start, make sure you have all the necessary video codecs installed on your system. If you don’t have them, then I recommend you to install K-Lite media codecs before you continue any further.

Here we go.

Step 1: Launch Windows Movie Maker and click on Click here to browse for videos and photos to browse and add the video you want to cut. You can also drag and drop your video to add it.

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How to Burn My HD Titanic Video into Blu-Ray

I remember I saw the movie 《Titanic》when I was in middle school age. And still remember the sad ending in which jack sacrificed himself for his lover rose by letting her stay on the only saving life floating board. They just knew each other on the ship for a short time, but fell in love quickly. I have to say such great love. Their love arrives at forever. These below are some wallpapers about Titanic I collected. They are some classic pictures in the movie.

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How To Watermark Your Videos In Windows Movie Maker

If you’ve always been fascinated by how well some YouTube videos or commercials turn out that you wish to make some of your own, why not try Windows Movie Maker to warm up your video-making skills? Lots of YouTube gurus seem be doing so. Authoring your own videos can be fun and time-consuming at the same time, so if you want to protect your work, make it more distinguishable and even professional, you should consider adding your signature.

I certainly wish I did back when I fansubbed a music piece with some (as I was told later) metaphorically incorrect translations and later laughed when I saw the exact same, incorrect lyrics I had spent hours researching for in another similar video. As you can tell, there’s no real harm in spending a few more minutes protecting your work. It may even get you more motivated when you see your own logo in your videos that you’ll continue making videos!

So before we start with the tutorial, note that the first part of the tutorial focuses on adding simple text-based watermarks, and for the second part, we’ll add an image watermark or logo into our video using the code from some brilliant users at the Movie Maker Forums.

Adding A Text Watermark
If you want a simple text watermark, not a logo, of your username or name in the lower portion of your video, you can get started right away with one of the built-in Titles.
First, start up Windows Movie Maker. Press Ctrl + I (or click on Videos under Import in the left sidebar) to import your video from your computer.

Drag your video to the timeline. Click on Title and credits under Edit in the left sidebar and then, click on Title on the selected clip.

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How to open or save Windows Movie Maker or MSWMM files?

As the beginner of Windows Movie Maker, you may come across various problems when using it, such as how to open .mswmm files, save Windows Movie Maker to WMV or how to import your source file into the Movie Maker, etc. In the article, I would like to show the detailed tips on using the Windows Movie Maker.

First comes to MSWMM files:
Some users may be confused about why the .mswmm can’t be uploaded upon YouTube. In fact, the .mswmm file is project file, rather than Windows Movie Maker video, but the project file. So before sending the video to YouTube, you should save the movie as .wmv or .avi video file type.

Part 1: How to open or import video to Movie Maker:

1.Run the Movie Maker program.

2.On the File menu, you can choose Import into Collections or Import Media Items. Make your selection and then click Import. Also you can directly add .mswmm project file into the software.

3.Drag the video to the storyboard at the bottom of the window.
Now, you can effortlessly edit your video in Movie Maker. When you finish the editing job, you can follow the Part 2 to save it.

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Capture Video with Windows Movie Maker

This page shows how to record a simple video clip of yourself speaking. We are using Windows Movie Maker because it is very simple and most people have it installed. The same basic process can be used with most capture software.

Windows Movie Maker is a video-making tool which comes free with Microsoft Windows. It is not exactly a feature-rich application but it is well-suited to simple tasks such as creating video to send with emails, which is what this page covers.

Remember to make sure your camera and microphone are connected to the computer (and turned on if necessary).

The screenshot on the right shows the Windows Movie Maker main screen. To begin, clickCapture Video in the left menu, then click Capture from video device.

The "Video Capture Wizard" window opens.

If your camera is correctly installed it will appear in the "Available devices" area of the window. Click the camera to select it.

At this stage you also need to test the audio. Make sure the correct microphone is selected and speak into it — you should see the meter level fluctuate as you talk.

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8 Video Editing Tips To Save You Time

Don’t be scared of editing. Just jump in and do your best. As long as you remember to save the original file you’ll have no problem! Even without a lot of video editing experience, anyone can create a professional-looking video if they just follow the right principles. Before long you’ll be an editing pro!

Video Editing Checklist

1. Start with the End in Mind

Have a mental image of how you want your finished video to look, before you shoot any video. This will help a lot in deciding what shots to take and what shots not to take. It’ll help you determine what kind of equipment you need, what kind of assistance you need and it’ll help you set your budget. By knowing exactly what you want in the end, you’ll avoid the all-too-common problem of not having one shot and having to get all the equipment out again just to take that one shot. Sometimes when that happens the whole video get scrapped because we’ve run out of time.

2. Learn the Basics of Shooting Video

No matter how good your editing is, you can’t make shoddy film look like great film. One of the “secrets” to video editing is starting with good footage to begin with. While you don’t need to take a 6-month course in cinematography, it can really help to read up on the basics of how to hold a camera, how to pan a camera, different angles you can use, and how to take different kinds of shots.

3. Don’t Use Too Many Transitions

One beginner mistake is to use too many different kinds of transitions, especially flashy ones. Airplanes flying in and wiping out the screen, the first scene exploding into the second scene, etc. are effects that can be used occasionally. Your videos will actually look a lot more professional if you just used crossfades, fade-to-black or fade-to-whites. The simple cut is still the most used transition. Pick one and stick to it.

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Convert My iPod Touch 4 Shooting Mov video into WMv For Editing

1I bought the iPod touch 4 generation last week. Although it's just an mp4 player, it gets high rates by editor or some users for its excellent entertainment function. It's the thinnest digital device I have ever used. As far as I tried so long, It works good. But the photos taken by the iPod touch is not that clear, the videos shot can be clear,it's in .mov format.

Although iPod touch gets simple editing features, but that's not what i need. I want to edit it in windows movie maker. And windows movie maker only supports .wmv or .avi video to import for editing. It sucks! Okay, well my friend Ramond gives his video converter to let me to do this.This software names Easy iPod Converter Suite It works. I made the tutorial on how to convert mov video to wmv video, hope it will help guys who need this.

This is the outlook of the software, you can see it gets clear instructions tell you how to do.

1 import the mov format video shot by your iPod touch 4

2 After your input your video, it shows like this. The output file is mp4, this the default setting, you can change in the profile, choose "wmv-windows media vieo" from the "common video".

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Windows Live Movie Maker Plug-ins Free Download

We know Windows Live Movie Maker is a free video editing software we can use to edit our video with its some basic editing features. Then we can upload to YouTube to share with our family members or friends. Actually there are some plug-ins you can download free at internet to extend the use of Windows Live Movie Maker. Now I would like to introduce some popular used windows live movie maker for you.

1 LiveUpload to YouTube

Now a lot people are using YouTube,Will Duff developed this plugin which enables to upload their videos straight to YouTube in an easy way with LiveUpload to YouTube.

Windows Live Movie Maker LiveUpload to YouTube

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How to import DVD and video to iMovie

We know Not all videos can be imported into Imovie for editing. So you get to know what can be added to Imovie to content the produce.

Below are Video formats that iMovie supports:
Tapeless Camcorder(MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and AVCHD) ;
Tape based DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video) ;
Part Camera\Mobile Phone video\other video recorder devices(MPEG-1, MEPG-2, MPEG-4, H.264);
MPEG-4 video.
The camcorder and device that iMovie supports you can visit at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1014

In the final analysis, limited format supports iMovie. How if you want to edit DVD segments, YouTube FLV Video, QuickTime video, M4V, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV and other video formats on iMovie. Below i will introduce someway!

Now I would like to show the steps on How to import Non-Commercial DVD into iMovie
1) Insert your DVD.
2) Open Disk Utility.
3) Select the disk and then select "New Image". Save the disk image wherever is convenient, such as the desktop.
4) Once the disk image is written, open iMovie.
5) Mount the new disk image. A "Camera Detected, Scanning Contents" window will appear in iMovie, followed by an import window. You can now import the DVD contents and start editing away.

If you want to import commercial DVD and other videos that refused by iMovie, you need a converter that can rip DVD and convert video to iMovie supported format MPEG-4(MP4). You can try leawo video converter for Mac, which cost you $35. It's not inexpensive. As my tried experience, it enable us to convert most videos into the video file that imovie support.

Then After converting, you can import converted videos to iMovie to edit.

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Some Tips on Using Windows Movie Maker

Windows movie maker is a popular free video editing software on windows. We can use it to do some simple video editing like crop, merge, or add effects, if you don’t need much advanced editing features, you can use the windows movie maker to edit your video share with your family or friends, adding some fun for our life.

(1) How to Crop a Video in Windows Movie Maker

1 Import the videos into Windows Movie Maker using the "Import Video" command in the Movie Tasks list. Select the video in the list window and click the "Import" button.

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Two Best And Free Online Video Editing Software

You may don't want to install the video editing software for some kinds of reasons like it may slow your computer or it may cause viruses or any other reasons. If so, there are some online video editing software for you to use. I would like to introduce some good online video editing software here.Also welcome to add the new one as a comment if you are willing.

(1) YouTube Editor

Some guys are YouTube fans and get their own YouTube channel, and edit their videos for sharing with friends or family. YouTube editor can be a great choice, it gets some basic editing features like:

1. Adding Clips

2. Trimming Clips

3. Customize Clips

4. Adding an audio track

5. Publishing Your Project

YouTube Editor

 (2)  Cellsea Free Online Video Editor

This free online video editor supports some online video sites to edit like YouTube,dailymotion, spike,metacafe etc. This can be great, you just don't need to upload. Well, if you want to upload your videos on your computer, but its gets size limitation,Maximum file size:: 25MB(this can be a pity). You also have to notice that it only supports these video formats to upload:FLV AVI MOV MPG VOBMP4 WMV RM 3GP DIVX.

Some other online video edit software like One True Media,Overstream,MovAvi,Animoto,Video Toolbox,TubeChop are also worthy of trying. The two I just introduced you don't need to register,but the later introduced software you may need to register or try the trial version for a while then you have to pay. Any way, there many online video editing software, the one fits you is the most favorable one. I will continue to find the good online video editing software in the later posts.

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Listen to Katy Perry - Wide Awake

   I'm wide awake

And now it's clear to me
That everything you see
Ain't always what it seems
I'm wide awake
Yeah, I was dreaming for so long

(Pre-Chorus)
I wish I knew then
What I know now
Wouldn't dive in
Wouldn't bow down
Gravity hurts
You made it so sweet
Till I woke up on
On the concrete

(Chorus)

Falling from cloud 9

Crashing from the high

I'm letting go tonight

(Yeah I'm) Falling from cloud 9

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How to convert AVI to MP4 with Leawo Video Converter?

Leawo Free AVI to MP4 Converter is to convert your movies, games, videos, etc. in AVI to MP4 movies, games, and videos. Thus with this AVI to MP4 converter, you can easily play and enjoy movies, games, and videos on your iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, etc.! Moreover, this AVI to MP4 Converter has many powerful functions, like video effect adjusting for a better visual effect, video trimming for a specific duration, video cropping for a dimension of your player screen, etc.

Leawo Video Converter is a free easy-to-use program, a good assistant for you when you have a portable player to watch AVI videos!

Open the converting program and add files

Click "Add Video" to import your AVIs in, or simply drag them in. Have a preview by double clicking the file name.

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How to convert DVD to AVI with Leawo DVD to AVI Converter?

AVI, short for Audio Video Interleaved, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992.As a container, AVI can contain both audio and video data in a file that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. With an age of 18 years, AVI is being widely supported on a vast range of operating systems and devices. With codecs of DivX and Xvid, the picture quality of AVI may even better than DVD videos.

Many people are trying to convert DVD to AVI for data storage on their computer hard drive. And a lot more people are seeking for a DVD to AVI Converter to convert DVD to AVI for video editing. Thus they can upload them to YouTube or MySpace for sharing. Definitely, they don't want their video to be reduced in quality, so a DVD to AVI converter software with best output quality will be their bad need! What about Leawo DVD to AVI Converter? Is it the right tool to help get a video for web use? Yes. This program is a professional converter software primarily to convert DVD to AVI for users' different needs. It not only provides with best video quality, but with two conversion modes, saving much time.

This DVD to AVI Converter is powerful in function and easy to use. It can help to improve your video, like contrast, brightness, etc. It can also help to get a video portion from the whole video for sampler or else. It's easy to use too, with DVD import and export, it will finish the job.

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