

You connect the camcorder, choose the music and options you want, and then sit back (or walk away). When you’re pressed for time, check out the newly enhanced Magic iMovie-a completely automated movie-assembly feature. There’s a graphic equalizer to bring out (or throttle back) the bass, treble, or midrange reverb and delay for those echoey effects even a tool to change the pitch of someone talking, turning a man into a woman or a woman into a chipmunk. iMovie 6 offers a new, sweet suite of audio-processing effects. In fact, you can have 10 of them open at once, for ease in comparing versions or copying material (or drag-and-dropping material) between them.Īudio effects. No longer must you close one movie project before opening another. (The Themes match the menu-design templates in iDVD, too, so the whole thing can have a consistent look when burned to DVD.) Each Theme design contains big holes called drop zones that you can fill with your own photos or movies, so that the result looks like it was tailored just for your movie.

A theme, in iMovie lingo, is a prefab, canned, professional animated graphic that you can use for opening credits, section dividers, end-of-movie “bumpers, “and so on. It loops over and over, changing its display in real time as you fiddle with the settings of your effect. In iMovie 6, though, the entire full-size Monitor window shows the preview. When you’re setting up a video effect, title, or transition (crossfade), you used to have to preview the results in a tiny, Triscuit-size window.
