Using the Magic Movie Function in iMovie

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody my name is Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Another cool thing you can do with iMovie is to create what they call a "Magic Eye Movie". What this does, it will take footage from your camcorder, if it is hooked up to your computer by a firewire and pretty much make a movie for you. To get to "Magic iMovie" you can go up to "File" and go down and click "Make a magic iMovie". You can also access this from the splash screen; let me get out of here. It will say, "Make a magic iMovie", and if I click there it is going to say create project, and you can name it whatever you want. Then select the "Video Format", "DV' is going to be what you select in most cases. When you click create, it is going to give you a couple more options, here. You can title your movie whatever you want up here. There is some more options down here like, if you select "Rewind the tape", before capturing the movie, it will take your camcorder and rewind it to the beginning of your tape. You can also select to have the video stop capturing after so many minutes. You can select a transition you want to happen between your clips, here. If you select "Choose music", you can have a soundtrack put to your files as well, to your video as well. Also, you can select to have your movie automatically sent to "iDVD". But when you click create it is going to automatically start capturing your movie and pretty much do everything for you. If you do not like what happens to your video, you can always go in and edit it, using the techniques we learned earlier."