iMovie: Creating Videos On Your Mac (Udemy.com)

How to make movies using Apples powerful yet easy-to-use video editor.

( 176 Reviews )

Created by: MacMost & Gary Rosenzweig

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Know how to create longer movies from a series of video clips.
Apply filters and effects to videos.
Add sound effects and music to videos.
Find out how to add titles and transitions to tie your video clips together.
Edit and manipulate video clips to craft a nice video for personal or casual work use.
Learn about special iMovie techniques like overlays, green screen, animated maps and backgrounds.

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

Course Description

Movie: Creating Videos On Your Mac is a complete course with more than 30 videos and 4 hours of instruction that will teach you how to use iMovie to edit your clips together into short films. Youll learn how to use all of the tools in iMovie such as the precision editor, transitions, titles, backgrounds, overlays and much more.

iMovie is the video editor that comes with your Mac. It is both easy and fun to use. You can take videos shot on your iPhone or digital camera and create your own movies for home or work use.

This course starts off with a very simply example of how to use iMovie to stitch a few clips together. Then youll learn how to trim, crop and adjust individual clips to make them look better. Youll see how you can add standard video elements like text, titles, transitions and background audio. You will also learn how to use more advanced techniques like putting two videos on the screen at the same time in an overlay or split screen. Youll find out how to speed up and slow down video and apply special filters.

This course is meant for casual Mac users. iMovie is not a pro tool, but something that typical Mac users can work with to produce their own movie projects. With only a basic understanding of how to use your Mac you can now learn how to produce your own movies for home, school or work.

The version of iMovie used in this course is 10.
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4. iMovie versions 10.
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5 and 10.
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6 introduced mainly bug fixes.
Who this course is for:
Typical Mac users with an interest in putting together videos. This is not a pro-level course and iMovie is not a pro-level app. However, iMovie is capable enough to use for a variety of simple and casual work projects.

Time: 5h

Instructor Details

MacMost & Gary Rosenzweig

4.6 Rating
176 Reviews

Gary Rosenzweig is an Internet entrepreneur, software developer, and technology writer. He runs CleverMedia, Inc., which produces websites, computer games, apps, and podcasts.
Gary is the host and producer of MacMost, a site that features more than 1,000 video tutorials for Apple enthusiasts. It includes many videos on using Macs, iPhones, and iPads. Gary has written more than 30 mass-market computer books, including the best-selling book My iPad, The MacMost Guide to Switching to the Mac, My Pages, ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, and Special Edition Using Director MX. He also has self-published titles such as 101 Mac Tips and The Practical Guide to Mac Security.
Gary is also the creator and producer behind WP Tips And Hacks, a site with video tutorials and code examples to help WordPress users customize and modify their WordPress sites.
Gary has a computer science degree from Drexel University and a masters degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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By Joseph Applegarth on 9/2/2020

Gary's tutorials are always exquisite. He is an expert and a master teacher.

By Rosanne Driscoll on 7/16/2020

I'm making a 5 min movie every week for church because we are still on-line, with some people coming to in-house worship. I film the children's time part and put it up on facebook every Saturday. I have been doing this since March when the lockdown started. I started to learn iMovie on my own, but my progress was accelerated by taking this course. I am getting lots of good feedback on my weekly films. Thank you. The only improvement I would suggest is that when you start to use a new technique, it isn't always clear at first where you are going with your curser. The narration should say something like up here in the upper left and wiggle the curser around before clicking so that the learner can see exactly where you are, then stop the video, and grab up their own iMovie and see if the same thing, say projects, for example, is in the same place.

By Laurens Merkx on 6/26/2020