Master iMovie
Advanced editing in iMovie
Adjust colours and tones and edit in layers to combine clips
Use filters and a blurred background to give your clips a more cinematic look.
Your iPhone does a great job of capturing a scene’s colours and tones, but occasionally a shaded location may look underexposed and cold (blue). We’ll show you how to ‘grade’ a clip to counteract colour casts and reveal more shadow detail, without blowing out brighter highlights.
As well as being a non-linear editor (where you can swap the running order of clips to tell a story), iMovie enables you to edit in layers, opening up a host of creative effects. In this video sequence the girl mounts her iPhone on a gimbal to film. Using iMovie’s layer based ‘Picture in Picture’ (PiP) effect we can see the girl filming, plus view the footage from her iPhone in the same shot. These layer-based effects enable us to tell a more visually interesting story.