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Add maps and backgrounds

Add world maps to a project
iMovie includes several styles of maps—both still and animated—that you can add to your projects…

Add solid-color, graphic, and animated background clips
You can add video clips to your project to serve as backgrounds for other content,…

  • Import video into iMovie
    • About importing HD video
    • About video cable connectors
    • Import from a camera or camcorder
      • Import from a USB device
      • Import from a tape-based camcorder
      • Archive the video on your camcorder
      • If iMovie doesn’t recognize your camcorder
    • Import from other sources
      • From a digital still camera or DSLR
      • From iPhone
      • From a camera archive
      • From iMovie Drop Box
      • From iMovie HD projects
      • From movie files
    • Import an iMovie project from an iOS device
    • Record video into iMovie
    • Stabilize shaky video
      • Stabilize video motion
      • Adjust zoom in stabilized video
      • If stabilized video looks blurry or erratic
  • Watch footage and projects
    • Play your video
    • Use full-screen playback
    • Skim video
    • Pause video skimming
    • Watch on a second display
    • Watch video on other devices
      • On Apple TV
      • In Front Row
      • On iPod, iPhone, or iPad
      • Make MobileMe Gallery movies viewable on iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad
  • Create an iMovie project
    • Start a project
      • Start a new video project
      • Overview: NTSC, PAL, and Cinema format video
    • Plan your project with a storyboard
    • Work with a project
      • Open an existing project
      • Change the aspect ratio for your project
      • Change the name of a project
      • Duplicate a project
      • Save changes to a project
      • Finalize a project
      • Delete a project or project folder
    • Use project themes
      • Overview: iMovie themes
      • Set or change a project’s theme
      • Specify team information for the Sports theme
    • Select video clips and video frames
      • About filmstrips in the Project browser and Event browser
      • Step through video frame by frame
      • Select video clips and other project elements
      • Select a range of video frames
      • Set automatic frame range selection
      • Find source video for project clips
    • Add and delete video and photos in a project
      • Add video to a project
      • Rearrange clips in a project
      • Use video from your iPhoto library
      • Correct rolling shutter distortion in a video clip
      • Replace a video clip
      • Split a video clip
      • Include the same video more than once
      • Delete video from your project
      • Add photos from iPhoto
      • Add still frames extracted from video
      • Adjust the duration of a still image or background clip
    • Trim video clips
      • Extend or shorten a clip
      • Trim unwanted frames from a video clip
      • Edit the transition point between clips
    • Preview edits quickly
    • Add and edit screen titles
      • Add titles over video
      • Edit a title
      • Adjust title duration
      • Adjust how quickly titles fade in and out
      • Reuse the last title created
      • Move a title within a project
    • Add and edit transitions between clips
      • Add transitions between clips
      • Disable automatic transitions
      • Change the style of transitions
      • Delete transitions
      • Adjust the duration of transitions
      • Change still frames in theme-styled transitions
    • Add maps and backgrounds
      • Add a world map
      • Add background clips
    • Undo changes to a project
  • Create a movie trailer
    • Create a trailer
    • Convert a trailer to a project
    • Print a trailer
  • Crop and apply effects to video and photos
    • Crop and rotate video clips and photos
      • Crop video or still images
      • Crop video automatically
      • Rotate video or photos
      • Edit cropping, rotating, or the Ken Burns effect
    • Enhance video and photos
      • Types of special effects
      • Adjust image quality in photos and video
      • Slow down or speed up video
      • Reverse, rewind, or replay video
      • Enhance video and photos with video effects
      • Add a cutaway clip
      • Add a picture-in-picture clip
      • Add a side-by-side clip
      • Use a blue-screen or green-screen effect
      • Add interesting visual treatments to video clips
      • Synchronize video effects with background music
      • Modify the Ken Burns effect
      • Apply panning and zooming (the Ken Burns effect) to video
    • Apply the same adjustments to multiple clips
  • Work with audio and music
    • Add audio and music
      • Add background music
      • Change the order of background music
      • Record a voiceover
      • Add a sound clip
      • Add just the audio from a video clip
    • Adjust audio position and duration
      • Set where sound or music starts and ends
      • Pin background music to a video frame
      • Extend a video clip’s audio over the next clip
    • Synchronize video with music and other audio
      • Add beat markers to audio
      • Reposition or remove beat markers
      • Synchronize video with beat markers
      • Synchronize video with background music
    • Adjust volume
      • Adjust the volume of an entire audio or video clip
      • Adjust the volume of a portion of an audio or a video clip
      • Reduce the volume of competing audio
      • Adjust the rate of audio fade-in and fade-out
      • Normalize clip volume
    • Adjust audio quality
      • Reduce background noise
      • Optimize the sound in video and audio clips
      • Add an audio effect to a sound or video clip
  • Share your video project
    • About image resolution of shared projects
    • Publish your video project online
      • Publish to MobileMe Gallery
      • Publish a movie to a sharing website
      • Publish a movie to Podcast Producer
    • Use your movie in other Apple applications
    • Send your project to iTunes
    • Create a DVD
    • Export your video project
      • Export movies to the Finder
      • Customize your QuickTime export with expert settings
  • Organize video
    • Organize projects
      • Organize the Project Library
      • Copy or move a project to an external hard disk
      • Consolidate a project’s media
    • Manage Events
      • About Events and the Event Library
      • Organize the Event Library
      • Move a clip from one Event to another
      • Merge Events
      • Split an Event in two
      • Adjust the date and time of a video clip
      • Change the name of an Event
      • Delete video from an Event
      • Delete all excess video from an Event
      • Delete an Event
      • Copy or move Events to an external hard disk
      • If you can’t see any clips in an Event
    • Rate and tag video
      • About rating and tagging video
      • Mark and unmark video as “favorite” or “rejected”
      • Sort for video marked as “favorite” or “rejected”
      • Add comment markers and chapter markers
      • Apply keywords to video
      • Find video tagged with keywords
    • Mark video that features people
      • Analyze video for the presence of people
      • Filter for video that features people
    • Mark video that has panning motion
      • Mark video that features camera pans
      • Filter for video with camera pans
    • Print images of Event or project clips
  • Optimize the iMovie window for your work style
    • Resize thumbnail images
    • Expand or contract filmstrips
    • Use Full Screen
    • Resize the viewer
    • Use Multi-Touch gestures
    • Rearrange the iMovie window
    • Show project clips in a single row
    • Show or hide the Event Library or the Keyword Filtering pane
    • Display clip duration
    • View date, time, and keywords
    • Turn on Advanced Tools
    • Keyboard shortcuts and shortcut menus
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