The
ease with which you could get your movies onto the computer, and then get them off the computer
edited, titled, and complete with a soundtrack, boggled the mind.
If you??™ve never used iMovie before, get ready for a treat. This chapter gives you just enough
of a taste for what iMovie can do that you won??™t want to stop here.
iMovie: Your Personal Editing Room
iMovie??™s interface is designed so that what used to be such a complicated task, editing video, is
now something that absolutely anyone can do without requiring a degree from the University of
Southern California film school. Let??™s see what??™s what in Figure 13-1.
Import Video into iMovie
Talk about flexibility! iMovie can import from your digital video camera, import movie files
already on your Mac (formats include MOV, MPEG-4, DV, and others), and import iMovie HD
projects from earlier versions of iMovie. iMovie can also import 1080i video.
iMovie can indeed import movies from your video camera, but do not insert mini-
DVDs, or any other nonstandard disk, into your Mac??™s CD/DVD drive. You could
seriously damage your Mac??™s CD/DVD drive.
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