How-To Guides:
Digital Moviemaking with iMovie

For Macintosh Users

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So you want to create a video project? Lucky for you, we are living in the era of digital moviemaking. This how-to guide is divided into three main sections:

  1. Tips for Movie Making
  2. What you'll need (hardware / software)
  3. Capturing video on a digital camcorder
  4. Connecting a digital camcorder to your computer
  5. Using iMovie

For inspiration, checkout some of the iMovies in the Apple iMovie Gallery - www.apple.com/imovie/gallery

Get ideas for instructional uses of iMovie in the Apple Digital Hub for Education site - www.apple.com/education/dv

A Note About non-Digital Moviemaking

While it is possible to use older, non-digital camera equipment for a project of this type, these analog recording devices do not provide the same easy of use and flexiblity as digital video editing tools can. For this reason, DIGITAL VIDEO EQUIPMENT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The TTU College of Education Learning Resources has a limited number of digital camcorders available for checkout.

If a portion of video from an analog tape (VHS or Video-8) needs to be imported into a video project, this can be accomplished using video analog to digital conversion equipment.

Most of the photos included in this guide are thumbnails: you can click the photo and see a larger version in a new browser window.

This guide has been updated and is now divided into five different sections:

A single page handout of these parts is also available.

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