**Getting Started with iMovie: A Beginner's Guide**

If you're new to iMovie, you'll notice another new icon up here - Video Overlay Settings. This is where you can choose how you want your video to appear. Clicking on this icon allows you to select from various options, including blue and green screening, which is similar to removing solid green colors to put in your own custom backgrounds, often used by the Weather Channel. Another option is picture-in-picture, allowing you to freely position a photo within another video. This feature enables you to layer multiple things on top of each other, making it easier to create complex and visually appealing videos.

**Built-in Backgrounds and Transitions**

iMovie also comes with built-in backgrounds that can be animated, such as maps, curtains, or simple gradients. These features can enhance the overall look and feel of your video without requiring any additional software or editing skills. For instance, you can use a transition to fix an issue where a gradient cut out slightly early. By selecting from various options, you can customize your video's appearance and make it more polished.

**Recording Voiceover**

One of the key features of iMovie is its built-in recording capabilities. If you click on the microphone icon, you can record your own voice as an audio track into your movie. This allows you to add a personal touch to your videos and makes them more engaging for viewers. You can adjust the volume of your microphone and even mute the project while recording, giving you complete control over the process.

**Sharing Your Movie**

Once you've finished editing your video, you can share it with others by clicking on the little arrow in the top right corner. This option allows you to export a file to various platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and even iTunes. You can choose where you want to share your movie, and iMovie will take care of the rest.

**Exporting and Saving Your Movie**

When exporting your movie, iMovie provides several options for saving it. By default, the name is set to "My Movie," but you can change this by clicking on the sheet that slides down. You'll then be asked where you want to save your movie, with the option to choose from various folders, including the default movies folder on Macs.

**Interactive Learning Resources**

While watching this video provides a good overview of iMovie, it's not an interactive experience. However, there is another resource available called Tid Bytes Training, which offers online training and personalized support for learning about iMovie and other software. This allows you to interact with your trainer and learn at your own pace, making the process more engaging and effective.

**Conclusion**

iMovie is a powerful video editing software that can help you create stunning videos with ease. With its built-in features, user-friendly interface, and interactive training resources, it's an excellent tool for anyone looking to improve their video creation skills. By following this guide and exploring the various options available in iMovie, you'll be well on your way to creating amazing videos that will leave a lasting impression on your friends and family.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engreetings Internet I am Ken from the computer clan and by the end of today's video you're gonna have a basic understanding of Apple's iMovie software so you can start making your own videos or maybe just continue making videos with a better understanding of the software now stick around until the end because I do have a cool and useful resource that will help you learn iMovie even more if you want to keep your training going in the future and that's very good so if you don't have iMovie installed I recommend checking out the App Store it is a free download for your Mac and when you're ready to go just open up iMovie and let's get started so I'm gonna start here from the projects tab if you don't have that open just click projects up here on top and we're going to create new you get two options here you can create a movie or a trailer a trailer is more automatic as to where it will take your video clips and kind of stitch them together into a movie trailer that's a little more automatic we're gonna take a look at something that's a little more manual so we have more creative freedom over our movies so we're just going to click movie so now this interface opens up here we have the browser up here our viewer over here this is where we see our footage playing back this is where our footage gets stored and this is our timeline this is where the footage gets ordered chronologically so this is where we actually stitch everything together and make a final video product so as you can see everything looks kind of empty right now so let's get some footage imported so up here we can click the downward arrow and that brings up our import window and there's a couple of ways we can import footage if we want we can capture from our webcam right into iMovie or we can plug in an SD card let's say we took some photos and videos on another camera we can put the SD card into our computer and import files right from there another way we can do this as we can browse other devices connected to the computer we can even have some favorite locations saved to the sidebar here for easy access so these are files stored elsewhere but I want to copy them into my iMovie projects so they're safe inside of iMovie that way I can delete the files on the other media and just make sure everything is safe inside of my iMovie event so here's the footage I want I'm just going to quickly hit command a to select everything because I want to import it all and then up here we can choose where to import this footage to so I'm going to choose that and hit a new event an event is a location inside of iMovie where your media gets stored so this footage is about an abandoned theater so I'm just gonna call this abandoned theater so now all of this footage related to the abandoned theater will import under an event called abandoned theater it's nice to have things labeled for organization so we're gonna head on down here and hit import all that window will fly away and you'll notice our browser is now getting populated with these thumbnails which we can scrub see we can take a preview of the kind of footage you're importing here and you'll notice there's these little pie charts here and actually there's going to be a pie chart up here as well this is indicating that the files are being imported into your iMovie library once the pie chart is completely full that means the clip has successfully been copied into the library and now it is safe from all the other media so if you delete the original media from the original storage location that's okay this stuff is now copied safely inside of iMovie and you'll notice under our demo library here we have that new event that we just made were all this footage lies so that's pretty cool so now let's take a look at the timeline down here drag and drop video clips and photos from the browser above to start creating your movie so we can start doing that I can click around here I'll just hold down the command key to click a few items and this place just looked so freakin awesome just abandoned for decades so cool so I can click and drag the stuff down to the timeline or I can just click the plus button here and it will all fly down for me so now you'll notice we have a sequence of Clips down here the blue area down here is our audio waveform so the higher these Peaks are the louder the audio is in your movie and above the blue part is our filmstrip thumbnails so that just kind of gives us a preview of what the video looks like and I'm just moving my mouse around scrubbing this and as you'll see when my playhead moves over certain parts of the clip that stuff is reflected up here in the viewer I can also click and drag this playhead and readjust what time I'm looking at inside of the timeline so right now as you can see I am a minute and 58 seconds in spacebar is the quick key to play and pause I don't know if it's horsehair but you can see and if I want to change the order of clips I can just click them drag them around we change the order of these clips let's see here let's say I don't want that clip to go on for so long I can move my cursor to the edge of the clip to where it turns into these two arrows here and I can click and drag every time the clip so now all this extra of fat on the end of the clip here can be trimmed down I can do that with the beginning of a clip as well let's maybe open up with an establishing shot of where this whole thing is taking place so I'm gonna go back up to the browser here and just kind of skim over one of these shots and one of these could probably work so I'm gonna drag that at the beginning here and just take a look here I'm gonna trim it to there see how that looks that looks all right I'm just gonna shorten that up a bit by dragging it down so now it's about four seconds long just rearrange a few things here shorten em up so yeah a lot of clicking and dragging rather intuitive you don't need to memorize a lot of special commands or anything it works rather seamlessly so I'm talking in the background there I don't really want to hear myself right so I can take the volume down here and drag that down so this is our volume adjuster so if I want to mute that clip I can just drag the volume all the way down okay so now we got a basic timeline coming together here right so let's take a look at some other things we can do inside of the viewer so let's say I have this clip here a little bit of lens flare action going on I can actually come up here to the color palette and do some color correction so I have adjustments for saturation temperature so I can make the shot look warmer I can make it look cool a warmer look looks kind of nice there I can also adjust contrast our highlights shadows so some basic color correction things up there and if if you mess up you can hit reset and if you ever make small mistakes and you just want to step back you can always say command Z to undo or shift command Z to redo we can also automatically match color to certain scenes so I can say match color I want the color in this scene to match the color of let's say this scene and then iMovie will automatically apply the color changes I'm gonna cancel that because I like the manual adjustments that I made I can also crop so let's say there's something I don't like inside of the video and I want to reframe it I can crop to fill so I can just drag some of this out here and press the checkmark and now it reframed my video so we went from that to that just by cropping and making some adjustments there we also have our volume controls so we can adjust the how loud our Clips are down here but again you can also adjust that right in the timeline with this line right here we'll get back to a little more audio stuff in a bit we also have a noise reduction in equalizer so if there's background noise you can actually suppress that inside of here and we have a retime editor the speed editor so like if we want to speed up a clip or freeze a clip or even reverse a clip we can do that from here and there's also some effects so if we want we can browse through our effects here ooh now that looks nice and fun and cinematic I think JJ Abrams would be really proud of that so let's do blockbuster right there there we go so we've got an effect down there now and as you can see our footage is still copying in the background all while we're working on the project so that stuff can just run in the background you don't have to wait for it to import alright so we got like a cool alien cinematic look going on there that's pretty awesome let's maybe make a temperature tweak here just for fun I will let's see I don't know if I want to do effects I might just do a temperature adjustment might make that colder looking brighten that up a little bit there we go let's take a look at some transitions I'm gonna go to the transitions tab in the browser up here so right now each time these clips are separated here in the playhead jumps between them you'll see a cut so it's going to cut right about now and go to a different clip so cuts are pretty powerful transitions they're the most common but if you want to have like a fade or a swipe that's what you can use these for so I can drag down a cross dissolve here and now the clips will dissolve we can also work with titles so let's have a look here let's look at some title presets we've got some animation presets in here maybe if you want to do a Star Wars parody you got that in there too some light flashes some more JJ Abrams style lens flares lots of cool stuff right let's do hmmm let's maybe just do like a reveal maybe something like that so I want that to happen at the beginning of our project so I'm gonna click and reposition the playhead right at the beginning here I'm gonna drag this title down here so you'll see the title shows up on top of the clips in purple I can now edit the text right in the viewer here so I can say abandoned theater I could choose my typeface the size of it change the alignment bold italics color all from up here so now if we play that back we got abandoned theater and I'm thinking we'll maybe do like a dissolve during the title so we'll go back to transitions we'll take our dissolve and throw that down here maybe you switch these Clips around actually maybe have this one show up first yeah let's take a look at that cool that's looking pretty nice I might need to punch up some of those shadows a bit so again we'll go back to our color corrector you know maybe I'll actually just make the highlights a little bit brighter there there we go let's play that back from the beginning so we have our title dissolve into our color grade clip there we go oh pretty lens flares right good stuff man JJ Abrams you you'd be proud man again if we click on my media that's where we can get back to all of our other content so we have some photos up here too we can throw those in and photos can be automatically animated with what's called a Ken Burns effect so we have that little zoom animation going on there so maybe get some music in here so I can actually browse sound effects my GarageBand projects and even my iTunes library all from within iMovie I don't have any particular song I want to use but maybe just an old piece that I wrote let's have a little preview up here I think that could maybe work I will just trim this and take the beginning part here and I can drag that down to the timeline notice that the music turns green so our video clips are blue our titles are purple and our music is green just to kind of help us separate everything I'm gonna choose an end point here so I kind of want the music to begin right around here so I'm gonna trim the beginning of that clip just by clicking and dragging the edge and then I'm going to reposition the clip to the beginning of the project or the timeline and again I'm just gonna extend the end here so it plays through all these clips and we'll have a listen that's pretty good but I kind of want it to fade in so earlier I showed you you can adjust your volume level down here but there's actually a little more you can do this little circle here is a handle for your fade controls so if I want the music to fade in I can drag that and choose how long I want the fade in to be and let's play that back now the music kind of fades in right there let's time this out a bit let's bring that back here let's maybe go back to our transitions maybe do like a cross blur let's have a look at what we got so I might need their voice to be a little bit louder I can kind of crank that up a bit maybe 200% so as you can see we have music titles transitions and Clips all coming together with some color adjustments crop adjustments and even some animation on some photos all coming together to create more of a final product so now I want to show something else that can be useful you can have multiple Clips stacked on top of each other so let's say we have this clip of the balcony of the theater but I also want maybe this behind-the-scenes photo up here I can actually drag that on top of the clip but now you'll see that clip will kind of just take over well maybe I want to show both at the same time so when I have a clip laid on top of another clip you'll notice another new icon up here this is video overlay settings if I click on that I can choose how I want the video to appear I can even do blue and green screening which is kind of like removing solid green colors to put in your own custom backgrounds kind of like how people do it on the Weather Channel I can do a picture-in-picture so now I can actually freely position this photo in front of the other video so now I can have this picture within another video so let's have a look at that so just keep in mind you can layer multiple things on top of each other we also have some built in backgrounds we can animate Maps for example we can have a curtain or even just a simple gradient so let's say I just want to put a gradient at the end I can do that I can go to my titles and just put a title on top there you go and then if I want the music to end I can just reposition the end of the clip here and just like what we did with the beginning we can fade it out it looks like the grating cut out a little bit early so I'm gonna expand that a little bit and make sure these line up well now it just kind of ends kind of weird there right well again we can use a transition to fix this maybe a fade to black right on the end there we go so now we have much more of a finished polished video project with titles backgrounds transitions music sound overlays just the whole nine yards man even some color effects another thing you can do is record voiceover so if you click this little microphone here you can record your own voice as an audio track into your movie I can click the controls here to choose which microphone I want to use to record and again adjust the volume of my microphone right here and I can even mute the project while I'm recording so it doesn't distract me so then if I click the chord I can now record my own voice right into an iMovie project and as you notice it shows up in the timeline right here in orange and when I'm done I can hit stop and then my voice is recorded right here so I can do whatever I want with that reposition it maybe I don't like it and I can delete it so anyway doing voiceover is all built in iMovie just used the microphone icon and you can record your voice into your video project it's my hope that this gives you enough to get started and do stick around because I'm gonna show you how you can share your movies with others and I'm still going to show you that cool resource that can help you learn more about iMovie in the future so when you're all done with your movie you can go up here to the little arrow and this lets you share your movie so you can actually share it right to YouTube to Facebook to Vimeo you can export a file to your computer send it to iTunes there's a bunch of options I like to export the file to my computer because then I can use it whenever I want and publish it wherever I want so I'm gonna choose file let me get some options so right now the default name was my movie but I'm gonna call this abandoned Theater I will choose next a sheet will slide down asking me where I want to save abandoned theater I'm just gonna save it in the default movies folder on my Mac and hit save so while that's going you'll notice we get another circle up here so this is just running in the background so I can continue working on other things while the computer processes the movie and when the file is exported you can open it up from the folder you saved it in and then watch it share it with your friends upload it to websites whatever you'd like to do so that's a quick overview of how iMovie works and how you can make your own videos now I did say I was gonna share that other resource with you so watching this video is great and everything right you can watch it and learn but what if you have a question you can't just pause the video and ask me a question right it's just a video I can't actually answer your questions but there is a way I can it's called tid bytes training and it's a website I run through the computer clan that allows me to train with you online and help you learn iMovie and any other products you'd like it's like a video but much more interactive and personal so if you want to learn more about iMovie just check out tid bytes training comm and I can be your personal trainer over the Internet and you can stay in the comfort of your own home while you learn more about iMovie and then create more amazing videos to stun your friends until then I hope you learned something if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment down below and I'll see you in the not-too-distant futuregreetings Internet I am Ken from the computer clan and by the end of today's video you're gonna have a basic understanding of Apple's iMovie software so you can start making your own videos or maybe just continue making videos with a better understanding of the software now stick around until the end because I do have a cool and useful resource that will help you learn iMovie even more if you want to keep your training going in the future and that's very good so if you don't have iMovie installed I recommend checking out the App Store it is a free download for your Mac and when you're ready to go just open up iMovie and let's get started so I'm gonna start here from the projects tab if you don't have that open just click projects up here on top and we're going to create new you get two options here you can create a movie or a trailer a trailer is more automatic as to where it will take your video clips and kind of stitch them together into a movie trailer that's a little more automatic we're gonna take a look at something that's a little more manual so we have more creative freedom over our movies so we're just going to click movie so now this interface opens up here we have the browser up here our viewer over here this is where we see our footage playing back this is where our footage gets stored and this is our timeline this is where the footage gets ordered chronologically so this is where we actually stitch everything together and make a final video product so as you can see everything looks kind of empty right now so let's get some footage imported so up here we can click the downward arrow and that brings up our import window and there's a couple of ways we can import footage if we want we can capture from our webcam right into iMovie or we can plug in an SD card let's say we took some photos and videos on another camera we can put the SD card into our computer and import files right from there another way we can do this as we can browse other devices connected to the computer we can even have some favorite locations saved to the sidebar here for easy access so these are files stored elsewhere but I want to copy them into my iMovie projects so they're safe inside of iMovie that way I can delete the files on the other media and just make sure everything is safe inside of my iMovie event so here's the footage I want I'm just going to quickly hit command a to select everything because I want to import it all and then up here we can choose where to import this footage to so I'm going to choose that and hit a new event an event is a location inside of iMovie where your media gets stored so this footage is about an abandoned theater so I'm just gonna call this abandoned theater so now all of this footage related to the abandoned theater will import under an event called abandoned theater it's nice to have things labeled for organization so we're gonna head on down here and hit import all that window will fly away and you'll notice our browser is now getting populated with these thumbnails which we can scrub see we can take a preview of the kind of footage you're importing here and you'll notice there's these little pie charts here and actually there's going to be a pie chart up here as well this is indicating that the files are being imported into your iMovie library once the pie chart is completely full that means the clip has successfully been copied into the library and now it is safe from all the other media so if you delete the original media from the original storage location that's okay this stuff is now copied safely inside of iMovie and you'll notice under our demo library here we have that new event that we just made were all this footage lies so that's pretty cool so now let's take a look at the timeline down here drag and drop video clips and photos from the browser above to start creating your movie so we can start doing that I can click around here I'll just hold down the command key to click a few items and this place just looked so freakin awesome just abandoned for decades so cool so I can click and drag the stuff down to the timeline or I can just click the plus button here and it will all fly down for me so now you'll notice we have a sequence of Clips down here the blue area down here is our audio waveform so the higher these Peaks are the louder the audio is in your movie and above the blue part is our filmstrip thumbnails so that just kind of gives us a preview of what the video looks like and I'm just moving my mouse around scrubbing this and as you'll see when my playhead moves over certain parts of the clip that stuff is reflected up here in the viewer I can also click and drag this playhead and readjust what time I'm looking at inside of the timeline so right now as you can see I am a minute and 58 seconds in spacebar is the quick key to play and pause I don't know if it's horsehair but you can see and if I want to change the order of clips I can just click them drag them around we change the order of these clips let's see here let's say I don't want that clip to go on for so long I can move my cursor to the edge of the clip to where it turns into these two arrows here and I can click and drag every time the clip so now all this extra of fat on the end of the clip here can be trimmed down I can do that with the beginning of a clip as well let's maybe open up with an establishing shot of where this whole thing is taking place so I'm gonna go back up to the browser here and just kind of skim over one of these shots and one of these could probably work so I'm gonna drag that at the beginning here and just take a look here I'm gonna trim it to there see how that looks that looks all right I'm just gonna shorten that up a bit by dragging it down so now it's about four seconds long just rearrange a few things here shorten em up so yeah a lot of clicking and dragging rather intuitive you don't need to memorize a lot of special commands or anything it works rather seamlessly so I'm talking in the background there I don't really want to hear myself right so I can take the volume down here and drag that down so this is our volume adjuster so if I want to mute that clip I can just drag the volume all the way down okay so now we got a basic timeline coming together here right so let's take a look at some other things we can do inside of the viewer so let's say I have this clip here a little bit of lens flare action going on I can actually come up here to the color palette and do some color correction so I have adjustments for saturation temperature so I can make the shot look warmer I can make it look cool a warmer look looks kind of nice there I can also adjust contrast our highlights shadows so some basic color correction things up there and if if you mess up you can hit reset and if you ever make small mistakes and you just want to step back you can always say command Z to undo or shift command Z to redo we can also automatically match color to certain scenes so I can say match color I want the color in this scene to match the color of let's say this scene and then iMovie will automatically apply the color changes I'm gonna cancel that because I like the manual adjustments that I made I can also crop so let's say there's something I don't like inside of the video and I want to reframe it I can crop to fill so I can just drag some of this out here and press the checkmark and now it reframed my video so we went from that to that just by cropping and making some adjustments there we also have our volume controls so we can adjust the how loud our Clips are down here but again you can also adjust that right in the timeline with this line right here we'll get back to a little more audio stuff in a bit we also have a noise reduction in equalizer so if there's background noise you can actually suppress that inside of here and we have a retime editor the speed editor so like if we want to speed up a clip or freeze a clip or even reverse a clip we can do that from here and there's also some effects so if we want we can browse through our effects here ooh now that looks nice and fun and cinematic I think JJ Abrams would be really proud of that so let's do blockbuster right there there we go so we've got an effect down there now and as you can see our footage is still copying in the background all while we're working on the project so that stuff can just run in the background you don't have to wait for it to import alright so we got like a cool alien cinematic look going on there that's pretty awesome let's maybe make a temperature tweak here just for fun I will let's see I don't know if I want to do effects I might just do a temperature adjustment might make that colder looking brighten that up a little bit there we go let's take a look at some transitions I'm gonna go to the transitions tab in the browser up here so right now each time these clips are separated here in the playhead jumps between them you'll see a cut so it's going to cut right about now and go to a different clip so cuts are pretty powerful transitions they're the most common but if you want to have like a fade or a swipe that's what you can use these for so I can drag down a cross dissolve here and now the clips will dissolve we can also work with titles so let's have a look here let's look at some title presets we've got some animation presets in here maybe if you want to do a Star Wars parody you got that in there too some light flashes some more JJ Abrams style lens flares lots of cool stuff right let's do hmmm let's maybe just do like a reveal maybe something like that so I want that to happen at the beginning of our project so I'm gonna click and reposition the playhead right at the beginning here I'm gonna drag this title down here so you'll see the title shows up on top of the clips in purple I can now edit the text right in the viewer here so I can say abandoned theater I could choose my typeface the size of it change the alignment bold italics color all from up here so now if we play that back we got abandoned theater and I'm thinking we'll maybe do like a dissolve during the title so we'll go back to transitions we'll take our dissolve and throw that down here maybe you switch these Clips around actually maybe have this one show up first yeah let's take a look at that cool that's looking pretty nice I might need to punch up some of those shadows a bit so again we'll go back to our color corrector you know maybe I'll actually just make the highlights a little bit brighter there there we go let's play that back from the beginning so we have our title dissolve into our color grade clip there we go oh pretty lens flares right good stuff man JJ Abrams you you'd be proud man again if we click on my media that's where we can get back to all of our other content so we have some photos up here too we can throw those in and photos can be automatically animated with what's called a Ken Burns effect so we have that little zoom animation going on there so maybe get some music in here so I can actually browse sound effects my GarageBand projects and even my iTunes library all from within iMovie I don't have any particular song I want to use but maybe just an old piece that I wrote let's have a little preview up here I think that could maybe work I will just trim this and take the beginning part here and I can drag that down to the timeline notice that the music turns green so our video clips are blue our titles are purple and our music is green just to kind of help us separate everything I'm gonna choose an end point here so I kind of want the music to begin right around here so I'm gonna trim the beginning of that clip just by clicking and dragging the edge and then I'm going to reposition the clip to the beginning of the project or the timeline and again I'm just gonna extend the end here so it plays through all these clips and we'll have a listen that's pretty good but I kind of want it to fade in so earlier I showed you you can adjust your volume level down here but there's actually a little more you can do this little circle here is a handle for your fade controls so if I want the music to fade in I can drag that and choose how long I want the fade in to be and let's play that back now the music kind of fades in right there let's time this out a bit let's bring that back here let's maybe go back to our transitions maybe do like a cross blur let's have a look at what we got so I might need their voice to be a little bit louder I can kind of crank that up a bit maybe 200% so as you can see we have music titles transitions and Clips all coming together with some color adjustments crop adjustments and even some animation on some photos all coming together to create more of a final product so now I want to show something else that can be useful you can have multiple Clips stacked on top of each other so let's say we have this clip of the balcony of the theater but I also want maybe this behind-the-scenes photo up here I can actually drag that on top of the clip but now you'll see that clip will kind of just take over well maybe I want to show both at the same time so when I have a clip laid on top of another clip you'll notice another new icon up here this is video overlay settings if I click on that I can choose how I want the video to appear I can even do blue and green screening which is kind of like removing solid green colors to put in your own custom backgrounds kind of like how people do it on the Weather Channel I can do a picture-in-picture so now I can actually freely position this photo in front of the other video so now I can have this picture within another video so let's have a look at that so just keep in mind you can layer multiple things on top of each other we also have some built in backgrounds we can animate Maps for example we can have a curtain or even just a simple gradient so let's say I just want to put a gradient at the end I can do that I can go to my titles and just put a title on top there you go and then if I want the music to end I can just reposition the end of the clip here and just like what we did with the beginning we can fade it out it looks like the grating cut out a little bit early so I'm gonna expand that a little bit and make sure these line up well now it just kind of ends kind of weird there right well again we can use a transition to fix this maybe a fade to black right on the end there we go so now we have much more of a finished polished video project with titles backgrounds transitions music sound overlays just the whole nine yards man even some color effects another thing you can do is record voiceover so if you click this little microphone here you can record your own voice as an audio track into your movie I can click the controls here to choose which microphone I want to use to record and again adjust the volume of my microphone right here and I can even mute the project while I'm recording so it doesn't distract me so then if I click the chord I can now record my own voice right into an iMovie project and as you notice it shows up in the timeline right here in orange and when I'm done I can hit stop and then my voice is recorded right here so I can do whatever I want with that reposition it maybe I don't like it and I can delete it so anyway doing voiceover is all built in iMovie just used the microphone icon and you can record your voice into your video project it's my hope that this gives you enough to get started and do stick around because I'm gonna show you how you can share your movies with others and I'm still going to show you that cool resource that can help you learn more about iMovie in the future so when you're all done with your movie you can go up here to the little arrow and this lets you share your movie so you can actually share it right to YouTube to Facebook to Vimeo you can export a file to your computer send it to iTunes there's a bunch of options I like to export the file to my computer because then I can use it whenever I want and publish it wherever I want so I'm gonna choose file let me get some options so right now the default name was my movie but I'm gonna call this abandoned Theater I will choose next a sheet will slide down asking me where I want to save abandoned theater I'm just gonna save it in the default movies folder on my Mac and hit save so while that's going you'll notice we get another circle up here so this is just running in the background so I can continue working on other things while the computer processes the movie and when the file is exported you can open it up from the folder you saved it in and then watch it share it with your friends upload it to websites whatever you'd like to do so that's a quick overview of how iMovie works and how you can make your own videos now I did say I was gonna share that other resource with you so watching this video is great and everything right you can watch it and learn but what if you have a question you can't just pause the video and ask me a question right it's just a video I can't actually answer your questions but there is a way I can it's called tid bytes training and it's a website I run through the computer clan that allows me to train with you online and help you learn iMovie and any other products you'd like it's like a video but much more interactive and personal so if you want to learn more about iMovie just check out tid bytes training comm and I can be your personal trainer over the Internet and you can stay in the comfort of your own home while you learn more about iMovie and then create more amazing videos to stun your friends until then I hope you learned something if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment down below and I'll see you in the not-too-distant future\n"