iMovie Programmer

iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac and iPhone 4 users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Apple model – iMac DV. Since version 3, iMovie has been a Mac OS X only application bundled in the iLife suite of Macintosh applications.

interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras, the iMovie imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWireUSB port, or by importing the files from a hard drive. From there, the user can edit the video clips, add titles, and add music. Effects include basic color correction and video enhancement tools, and transitions such as fade-in, fade-out, and slides.

Features of iMovie 4

Major new features and enhancements compared to iMovie 3 and its predecessors:

• Direct trimming of video and audio clips in the timeline
• Snapping sync for video and audio, audio waveforms and listening to audio while scrubbing
• Multiple clip selection, direct import from iSight

Other features include (also in earlier versions):

• Full-screen previewing.
• One video track, two audio tracks.
• Basic chroma key
• Sample sound effects included, some from Skywalker Sound.
• Voice-over narration can be recorded from a microphone and added to an audio track.
• Titles with effects such as 3D spin, converge, bounce across and ending credits motion.
• Transitions, such as cross dissolve, disintegrate, twirl, scale down and warp out.
• Video effects, including fast motion, slow motion, reverse fast/slow motion, brightness and contrast, electricity and fairy dust effects.
• Creation of still frames from video.
• Splitting clips.
• Extracting audio from clips.
• Exporting a movie or scene as a QuickTime movie, or sharing it via e-mail, Bluetooth or .Macdigital camera. HomePage, or sending it back to a