From the course: Screencasting with the Mac

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Assembling a movie

Assembling a movie

You now know your way around iMovie and understand how to import media into it. Let's start assembling a scenecast. We'll do that by recreating the demo movie that I submitted to lynda.com that explains what I had in mind for this title. I'll start by choosing New Project from the File menu. In the sheet that appears, I'll enter a title. I'll leave it at 16 x 9, because I shot the live video with an HD camcorder. At the bottom of the sheet, you can see the option to automatically add transitions between clips. That's convenient but we're going to add our transitions individually, so we can see how it's done. Finally, in the middle of the sheet, you see a Theme area. This is where you can choose a specific theme for your movie. We're not going to have any kind of theme at all. We're ready to go, so we'll click Create. I've shot some live action video and I've placed it in an event called Lynda Demo. We'll find that in the Date area and there is a Lynda Demo there. I select that event…

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