iPhone iMovie basics
- Open up iMovie and either choose an existing video from your iPhone or record a new video by tapping the record button.
- Once you have the video imported into iMovie, the clips for each project will appear at the bottom of the screen, whether in landscape or portrait mode.
- To trim clips, you can just drag your finger to control the pins on either side of the clip.
- To zoom into the timeline, pinch your fingers together. To zoom out, pinch fingers apart.
- If you want to quickly scroll through your video, slide your finger faster along the timeline.
- To give your movie a theme, head to the themes sub menu and tap one of them to choose it.
Adding transitions to your iMovie masterpieceThere are a whole load of transitions you can apply to your iMovie project, that all appear in the transitions sub menu. They include cross dissolve and theme transitions.
- Select the transitions menu and then choose a transition.
- Change the duration of the transition by selecting a duration.
- Select your iMovie library where all of your videos, photos and music is stored.
- Tap on the photos tab
- Select the photo album
- Select the photo and drag it to where you want the photo to appear in your timeline
- Select the iMovie library
- Tap on the music tab
- Your iTunes music as well as pre installed music will appear
- Choose a track and it will be added to your movie. You can also trim the clip as you would with video to fit it where you want to
- Double tap on the clip
- Select Title Style
- Select which of the titles you'd like to implement
- Type in the title using the keyboard
- The geo-location will also be added, taking the information from where the video was recorded
