Some examples of some effects that you could easily do in iMovie.

Yesterday in this blog entry I shared this video with 20 short video tutorials explaining how I edited it in iMovie.

 

Here you are some more examples, organized by categories:  

 

1.- Surprise with a change of music and background:

- Sad + Merry Christmas (10¨)

 

2.- Music and fast-forward:

- Elves in the forest (21¨)

 

3.- Add/change clothes:

- How to change your clothes in one minute (1´16¨)

 

4.- Change location covering the camera:

- A short tour around the American Embassy School (1´04¨)

 

5.- Clone yourself:

- Announcing the iMovie Club (29¨)

- In my living room (34¨)

- The Good and the Bad (13¨)

 

6.- Mixing two videos in your video:

- ¨Eso que tú me das¨ by Jarabe de Palo (3´01¨)

 

7.- Lip singing:

- ¨Hator hator¨ by Negu Gorriak (36¨)

- ¨Curtain Call¨ by Eminem (58¨)

 

8.- Using the Green Screen:

- Real Betis Baloncesto (8¨)

- Flying (2´10¨)

 

9.- Change background:

- And we will come back home (26¨)

 

10.- Fast Forward:

- Swimming at AES pool (42¨)

- FF and instant replay - Ferrari (25¨)

- My first bath in the Ganges river (2´33¨)

- Setting up shelves (1´29¨)

- Building shelves (1´28¨)

- Pruning (58¨)

 

11.- Drawing and talking:

- Annabelle´s 50^th birthday (4´45¨)

 

12.- Voice off:

- Juan Sebastián Elcano (1´43¨)

 

13.- Connect the dots + subtitles:

- Grade 8 Farewell (1´07¨)

 

14.- Video poems:

- ¨Ithaka¨ (by Kavafis) recorded in Angola (2´24¨)

- ¨Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche¨ Pablo Neruda (2´21¨)

- ¨If…¨ by Rudyard Kipling (2´02¨)

 

15.- Blurry face:

- No devices at school - iMovie club (33¨)

- No devices at school - iMovie club – Tutorial (14´25¨)

 

16.- Keynote:

- Animated graphics in iMovie using Keynote (13¨)

 

17.- Compilation:

- AES MS iMovie Club (1´40¨)

- iMovie video in 20 steps (2´42¨)

 

18.- Pass an object:

- Pass the soap (2´21¨)

- Pass the bottle (1´49¨)

 

Next step:

If you enjoy making videos and you are already comfortable using iMovie, you may want to expand your skills using a more powerful video editor, as Adobe’s Premiere Pro:

- 5 Green Screen Tricks In Under 3 Minutes (2´49¨)

- Some other impressive effects (37¨)

-Car crash effect (1´03¨)

-Some cool effects (2´15¨)

-Tik-Tok Joshua Drury.

 

Happy editing!