Go deeper with iMovie

Once you’ve grasped the basics, there’s a whole lot more you can do

Adding clips to the timeline, trimming them and adding titles and transitions are the nuts and bolts of making movies in iMovie. Once you’ve got the hang of those, you’ll be able to make great-looking videos. However, there’s a lot more to iMovie than that. We talked in the introduction about trailers, and we’ll show you how to make one here. Trailers are a great introduction to storyboarding, since the templates are presented as storyboards with placeholders for you to simply add your own content.

We’ll also show you how to add a narration track for your videos from within iMovie, which makes it easy to sync your voiceover with the video you’re talking about.

Finally, we’ll show you how to detach the audio of a clip from its video, so you can cut them at different points. For example, you could have the audio of a clip start during the transition from the previous clip. Or trim the video of a clip but leave the audio intact.