I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of iMovie, but I know there is always an opportunity to learn more. I think the the customization of individual shots, in terms of their image quality and effects is the one thing that most people don't realize that iMovie can do. The tutorials pointed out some of the customization options that iMovie has to offer. Each clip in the event browser has a little gear in the bottom left hand corner of the beginning of the clip. If you click on that gear you will get options to change the properties of the clip you have currently selected. If you click on the "video adjustments" option you will get an inspector window with a host of other options. In the inspector you can click on the "clip" tab, which will bring up another set of controls for the properties of the specific clip you have selected. Once you are there, you can click on the "video effect" drop down list and you will see that twenty options appear in small preview windows. These options apply video effects on your selected clip. The effects available are "flipped, raster, cartoon, aged film, film grain, hard light, day into night, glow, dream, romantic, vignette, bleach bypass, old world, heat wave, sci-fi, black and white, sepia, negative, and X-ray." You can apply those affects, see how you like them and unapply them very easily by just clicking back and forth between the effects and the "none" option which will return your clip to it's normal properties. These effects can create a whole other mood to your video clips. They can in many cases, serve to move your story, or point forward, by creating a specific feeling, or atmosphere for your video.
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