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Audio editing
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adjust audio levels within a clip
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Clicking a button in the Project browser
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audio waveform below the clip
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drag to select
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drag the audio level (the Volume bar)
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automatically applies a fade to the section ends to avoid abrupt volume changes
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Easy fades
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When you position the mouse pointer over a clip’s audio waveform, fade handles can be dragged left or right to adjust the fade
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Additional audio enhancement
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equalizer, a slider for reducing background noise, and 20 audio effects
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Multi-Tune effect (Apple’s name for the auto-tune effect overused in a lot of pop music) is amusing but offers no fine control
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limited to one audio effect per clip
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Movie trailers
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Fun and easy to make
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Helps teach the concept of a storyboard
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Choose File -> Convert to Project to access the editable project
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duplicate first if you want to save the original trailer project
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if you’re planning an upcoming video shoot, create a new Movie Trailer project, click the Shot List tab, and build a list of scenes you need using the animatic placeholders found in the Maps, Backgrounds, and Animatics panel. Then, print the shot list (or save it as a PDF that you can take on location on an iPad, iPod, or laptop).
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Bring back the timeline
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Single Row View button in top window
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swap the Project browser and Event browser
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One-Step Effects
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shortcuts for making edits
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select a portion of the clip and choose Clip -> Fade to -> Black and White
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automated, but after applying an effect, you can edit its components
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Clip menu now allows access to common actions like speeding up or slowing down a clip. Don't have to open inspector.
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non-destructive. You can undo effects
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Other new effects
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blue screen in addition to green
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Side by Side effect
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People Finder
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Need to analyze your clips
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File-->Analyze Video…
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Faces and Stabelization (pans)
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Face detection vs. Recognition
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identifies number of people, close or wide, etc, but not who.
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Other Footage tags
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auto adds tags to identify clips
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people, pans (left or right)
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Photo improvements
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add a still photo that’s oriented vertically, iMovie automatically crops it to fit the project’s horizontal aspect ratio
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Click the new Allow Black button in the Viewer to include the entire photo (with black bars on the edges).
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click a thumbnail in the Photo browser now displays the full image in the main viewer so you can see it better
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photos added to the project get a green checkmark in the photo browser so you know what you've already imported.
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Rolling shutter correction
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a wavy effect in footage shot with CMOS sensor cameras
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"Apply rolling shutter correction for clips that have been analyzed" option.
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New themes
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News
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Sports
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Sports Team Editor
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Database of player names, positions, sports, and photos that can be called up to display stats on each person
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Data can be entered or imported from a CSV file
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Easy import
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Dropbox folder at ~/Movies/iMovie Events
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when you launch iMovie, you’ll be asked if you want to import any new videos added to that folder.
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Change All Title or Transition Styles
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Dropping a new style onto the title or transition section of a clip changes the style and then asks if you’d like to replace just the one title or all titles in the project.
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Video engine unchanged
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Video shot as interlaced (such as 1080i, where the camera records every other horizontal line in every frame) can display combing artifact
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Still no direct AVCHD support
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Converts footage to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec)
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AVHDC is a highly compressed format and direct editing requires reconstruction of the frames on the fly which is an intense process. AVHDC is really designed for direct playback not editing.
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still will only save RAW AVHDC to disk for archive and import later
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iMovie ’11 does now support video shot at 24p (24 progressive frames per second) without converting the rate
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Exporting
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Vimeo and Facebook export in addition to Mobile Me and YouTube
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CNN iReporter
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1080p export option
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