Reversal of Fortune Visual effects may make for cool eye candy, but their real power is their ability to enhance a shot or create missing shots. When you attempt to crop the end of the clip, iMovie 2 cuts the footage outside the cropping markers–not inside, as with a normal clip. The problem is that once a clip is reversed, it’s impossible to crop it accurately. And while this will no doubt result in hundreds of home movies of dogs jumping backward through hoops, its real power is the ability to create missing sequences, such as zooming out when all you have is a zooming-in shot. Reverse Clip does exactly what its name implies–takes the selected clip and reverses it. And you can “lock” any audio clip at any point to ensure audio and video stay in sync. You can then edit the audio clip as you would any other. This happens automatically when you do an insert edit, but you can also extract audio from a video clip as a separate action.
Speaking of extracted audio, another important new feature is the ability to extract audio from a video clip. With iMovie 2, it’s just a matter of cutting and pasting. Insert Easy Performing an insert edit (adding footage to the middle of a clip without losing sync with that clip’s audio) used to be a nearly impossible task in iMovie.
Apple acknowledges the bug and its engineers are looking into the problem.) (However, there’s a catch - sometimes audio glitches appear when you use this command. This allows an iMovie maker to add a steady stream of shot changes while a narrator continues to talk in the background, and then reconnect the narrator and his voice at the end of the clip. Chief among these is the Paste Over At Playhead command, which lets you insert one video clip inside another (“add an insert edit,” in video-editing par-lance), overwriting the video for the portion of the clip inserted but keeping the original clip’s audio intact. IMovie veterans will love the new Create Still Clip option–it grabs the frame displayed in the marquee and turns it into a static five-second clip in the Clip Shelf, a process that used to take several steps.īut most of iMovie’s flashiest capabilities are stored in the new Advanced menu. If the changes in the Timeline Viewer aren’t enough for you, a quick tour of iMovie 2’s menus will reveal a wealth of new capabilities. This is especially annoying if the Timeline Viewer is your preferred area for editing footage. Instead, you need to toggle to the Clip Viewer to move clips back to the shelf. I also stumbled upon a feature downgrade: you can no longer drag clips back to the Clip Shelf from the Timeline Viewer. It wasn’t until I tried to drag a clip back to the Clip Shelf from the Timeline Viewer that I discovered that you can open dead space in the middle of a movie, effectively adding blackouts between clips.
IMOVIE FADE AUDIO TRIAL
Unfortunately, accessing some of the new features is a matter of trial and error.
IMOVIE FADE AUDIO UPGRADE
With iMovie 2, the upgrade is in the details Apple has added or enhanced hundreds of features. Inexplicably, this dialog box can also set fade-in and -out duration for a single clip. It displays not only the clip name but also the name of the clip file in the media folder. Need the InfoĚ well-hidden new feature of iMovie 2 is the Clip Info dialog box. By the way, the Clip Info dialog box also gives you the name of the clip file in the Media folder, even if you’ve given the clip a new name inside iMovie (see “Need the Info”). Like a lot of iMovie 2’s new functionality, this feature isn’t immediately obvious: you get to it either by selecting Get Clip Info in the File menu or by double-clicking on a clip (yes, you can still set audio fades and audio levels directly in the Timeline Viewer, but you can’t set fade duration). You can even edit sound–cut audio into smaller clips, layer sound, blend one sound into another (using transitions, of course), and set sound fades and durations for each clip. Every media element is displayed in proper time scale–even sound effects fill exactly the amount of space in the timeline as it takes for them to play–and the new motion-speed slider in the Timeline Viewer lets you adjust a clip’s playback speed.
There are still two audio tracks, but now they can contain an unlimited number of audio clips, either layered or in succession. You can change the time scale of the Viewer so that even tiny clips are easy to discern, and each clip now includes a picture, so you can easily distinguish one clip from another. The Timeline Viewer, although it looks remarkably similar to the Audio Viewer in iMovie 1 (see Reviews, August 2000), is very different functionally.
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