Top: Lightning strikes as often as you feel like making it strike, thanks to the Electricity effect.īottom: The Fairy Dust effect might be better named Fireworks Sparkler, or perhaps Burning Fuse on an Invisible String. You can use the two sliders to specify how the earthquake is tossing your camera around: sideways or vertically, and to what degrees.
This one (Figure 6-9, bottom) is designed to simulate camera shake, the jittery, shuddering, handheld, no-tripod, stabilizer-off look that you'd get if you felt the earth move under your feet, and felt the sky come tumblin' down. Talk about an effect you'll use only rarely! If you need the colors or brightness to shift several times over the course of a clip, consider chopping up the clip into several smaller clips, each of which is an opportunity to reset the effect settings and timings. Tip: Using the Effect In and Out sliders, you can control which parts of the clip are affected by the Adjust Colors and Brightness & Contrast effects. Dragging the sliders a lot, however, may make the too-dark footage grainy and weird-looking. When you drag the Brightness and Contrast sliders in very small amounts, you may be able to rescue footage that's slightly murky or washed out. The Brightness & Contrast controls can help, but they're no substitute for good lighting in the original footage. If you're filming indoors without extra lights, you may as well accept the fact that your clip will be too dark.
Brightness & Contrastįootage that's too dark is one of the most common hallmarks of amateur camcorder work.
#Movie effects for imovie tv
This effect does one thing very well: It turns your clip into a black-and-white piece of footage, suitable for simulating security-camera footage or TV from the 1950s. (Better yet, apply the effect several times, to make the intensity of the shaking appear to fluctuate.) Top: Modern museum? Nothanks to the Aged Film effect, it's ancient edifice circa 1938.īottom: Earthquake! (For a better simulation of what iMovie really does, shake this book rapidly in front of your face.) This effect looks really great when you adjust the Effect In and Effect Out sliders so that the shaking begins gradually and intensifies. Using the Exposure, Jitter, and Scratches sliders, you can control just how faded, shaky-in-the-projector, and scratched up the footage looks (Figure 6-9, top).Ĭombine this one with Black & White, described next, and you've got yourself something that looks authentically like a horribly preserved reel you dug up from somebody's attic. It's designed to make a clip look like an old, flickering, dusty film, complete with horrible scratches along the celluloid. Here you've just spent $500 on a camcorder and a couple thou on a Macintosh, all in the name of attaining perfect purity of videoand then this effect comes along. There's only a subtle difference between these effects and the Brightness/Contrast effect described below this slider adjusts the brightness of the colors, rather than the overall brightness. Use this slider to adjust the overall brightness or darkness of the colors in your clip. If it's blue, you control how blue it is: increasing toward Vivid makes the blue more intense. This slider lets you control the intensity of a color, or its saturation. In practice, this effect doesn't do anything predictable to an image you're meant to play with it until you find something you like.Ĭolor (B&WVivid). What iMovie is actually doing is rotating the hue around the hue circle, either to the left or the right. Adjusts the overall color tint of the clip. Hue, saturation, and brightness are cornerstones of color theory you can read much more about them on the Web, or in books and articles about photo editing. The special sliders for this effect affect the hue, saturation, and brightness of your footage. If your footage has an unfortunate greenish tint, you can color -correct it if you're hoping for a sunset look, you can bring out the oranges and reds if it's a scifi flick taking place on Uranus, you can make it look blue and spooky. This powerful effect adjusts the actual color palette used in your clip footage. IMovie comes with 48 built-in effects, including dozens of new ones.
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