iMovie ’11
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For those interested in seeing an introduction to iMovie ’11 – very helpful You Tube tutorial.
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How to add additional locations into the animated travel Maps
Select iMovie in the Applications folder, then Control-click on it and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Contents » Resources and look for the text file WorldLocations.txt. This is a tab-delimited file, where each line contains four entries: Place, Region, Country and Latitude/Longitude.
So if you want to add Karlskrona in Sweden, you would enter on a new line at the end of the file. The first entry on the line would be Karlskronaa, then press the Tab key. If there were to be two places call Karlskrona in Sweden, you would next enter the regional location. In this case, that would be Blekinge County followed by another Tab. Next would come the country (Sweden) followed by another Tab. Finally, you would enter the latitude and longitude in decimal values. The two values are separated with a comma.
So in its final form, the above example would read as follows (the spaces between each entry are presses of the Tab key):
Karlskrona Blekinge County Sweden 56.184348,15.626846
If you don’t want any regional information, you would just enter a tab in the unused column, so the above could just read:
Karlskrona Sweden 56.184348,15.626846
Go to
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for more information
Green Screen Effects
Want to create great video FX- Try green screening!
In iMovie ’09 it really is simple. To begin with you need some sortof ‘green screen’ the most simple and cheap thing to use is green poster paper. Or if you choose to you can buy fabric get some bright neon 1.2 meters wide and 3 meters long for around $40.
There’s nothing wrong with random green cloth, as long as it’s the right colour and not reflective, it’s exactly the same thing.
A green screen is a sheet of cloth dyed chroma key green.
Or if you want to go pro you can purchase one at http://www.tubetape.net/servlet/the-198/%2419.95-Chromakey-Green-Muslin/Detail
costs around $19.95 plus postage
How to Green Screen.
Just follow these instructions!
And for simple video instruction click here!
This will give you a quick overview of green screening and some of the new advanced features in iMovie 09 including picture in picture.
Gathering Footage
With our focus on iMovie 09 today the issue of finding great footage raises it head. Of course if you can go and get that footage yourself that is wonderful however with many of the things that we study thats not possible. Antarctica for example is a visually stunning environment however quite difficult to visit and film.
Fortionately we have some great free options available. We can use these movies as stimulus, create a mashup from them, or modify them to suit our needs.
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