
Learn to create an engaging trailer by adding animations, sound effects, and color schemes in iMovie and Keynote, with video editing guidance for all levels.
Explore iMovie basics: choose between movie and trailer projects, browse templates, and start editing. Learn why the movie option offers more flexibility for YouTube-style, professional-looking videos.
Explore how to add backgrounds in iMovie and Keynote, using map templates to show travel routes, set starting and ending locations, adjust duration, and switch styles while keeping locations constant.
Learn how to add and customize titles in iMovie, including selecting a template, dragging it over the background, syncing durations, and adjusting font, color, alignment, size, and outline.
Learn to import media in iMovie by selecting files, importing, and dragging to the timeline, using methods like the media window, file menu, favorites, and Finder.
Organize media by marking used clips with orange lines in the timeline. Flag unused clips with red lines, delete media, and mark preferred clips with a heart and green line.
Learn to add transitions to smooth videos by selecting templates, dragging between clips, adjusting duration to two seconds, applying to all, and deleting unwanted transitions.
Explore timeline features in iMovie and Keynote animations, zoom into frames, split and edit clips, add freeze frames, adjust speed, detach audio, trim, and apply cross dissolve transitions.
Master cropping with fit or crop to fill, and apply the Ken Burns effect to zoom from start to end, plus rotate video or image.
Learn to apply filters, adjust speed (including reverse and custom percentages), stabilize shaky footage, and balance lighting and color to produce cohesive, professional videos in iMovie.
Learn to add audio files in iMovie and Keynote by selecting music from categories, previewing with the play button, and dragging a track into the timeline for background audio.
Learn to add voice overs in iMovie by importing or dragging and dropping audio under the video, recording with the microphone, adjusting volume, muting during recording, and exiting with escape.
Add your video files as audio to maintain sound across visuals, then align audio with video in the primary or secondary timeline by splitting, dragging, cropping, and reordering clips.
Learn to adjust audio volume, apply fade in and fade out, reduce background noise, adjust speed, and apply effects to create a professional studio-like sound.
Learn to create side-by-side videos and add logos in your projects. Drag videos onto the timeline, apply split screen or picture-in-picture, and refine with transitions, borders, and opacity.
Animate images in your video with picture-in-picture and keyframes in iMovie, starting off screen and moving to a chosen ending position while resizing for emphasis, then preview the result.
Learn to animate text, images, and symbols in Keynote, make backgrounds transparent, and control animation order and duration with build in, build out, and preview options.
Master the magic move transition in Keynote to animate three images across slides with off-screen starts, rotations, and smooth, eased transitions.
Create smooth motion paths in keynote by drawing a motion pad, turning points into a curved path, and animating a hot air balloon across the screen.
Discover how to add line draw animations in Keynote by drawing a motion path, refining points, and tuning duration, color, thickness, and endpoints with ease in and out.
Export Keynote animations as a movie with a custom resolution and transparency, then import into iMovie to overlay them on your video.
Export your iMovie project by choosing a file format, rename and save, then upload to YouTube or share on social media as the export completes.
Master markers in iMovie and Keynote animations to precisely place overlapping text or video by adding and adjusting markers, guided by a purple marker and a yellow alignment line.
Did you watch the trailer for this course? Well, guess what? That video was created only using iMovie and animations in Keynote! And by the end of the course, you will be able to make videos like that!
In this course, you will learn the various video editing features in iMovie that will help you create a professional-looking video. I will start from the basics and cover some of the more advanced ones over the course. So, this course is for ALL EXPERTISE LEVELS.
But the best part of this course is that it is a complete guide to IMOVIE AND KEYNOTE ANIMATIONS! While iMovie on its own is a powerful tool, I believe that the Keynote animations take your video to the next level.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Import and organizing media
Add Transitions
Adjust the color scheme of videos
Add sound effects
Edit your audio with studio-like features
Add simple animations in iMovie
Add advanced animations using Keynote
Export animations from Keynote
Export your video
AND MUCH MORE!
Note: This course only includes the animations feature in Keynote and not other features of Keynote as it does not pertain to the course objective of video editing.