iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 4 Transitions, Titles & Audio
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iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 4 Transitions, Titles & Audio

Transitions When you add clips to your timeline, iMovie adds a basic crossfade between each clip. This works quite well, but you’ll probably want to add some different transitions between your clips. There are a good number of transition effects built into iMovie, so you should be able to find one that suits the style…

iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 3 Clip Appearance
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iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 3 Clip Appearance

In this post, I discuss how to alter the appearance of each of the clips that make up your movie. When you select a clip, you’ll see a toolbar with a number of controls above the playback panel. These allow you to alter or apply effects to your clip. Note that the effect or edit…

iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 2, Putting it Together
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iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 2, Putting it Together

Putting Your Movie Together Building your movie is basically three steps: Select the clips you want to use Drag these (or a portion of them) into your movie timeline Add in transitions, titles, photos and audio. This post covers the first two of these, and a subsequent post will cover part 3. Creating a New…

iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 1, Importing your Footage
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iMovie and GoPro Quickstart – Part 1, Importing your Footage

Once you’ve got some footage on your GoPro, you’re going to want to share it with the wider world. I use iMovie with my GoPro for editing most of my video footage that you’ll see on this site. This article and the subsequent ones explain how to do some basic editing using Apple’s free iMovie…

How To Add White Background for Instagram in Lightroom
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How To Add White Background for Instagram in Lightroom

Recently, I’ve noticed a few users, particularly photographers, have their images set on a white background for Instagram. There are a few reasons for doing this – the white background sets off the image nicely with a border, and it also removes the restrictions on image ratios that Instagram imposes. I looked for a convenient…