IMovie 08 Video effects?

Okay I could totally be missing this in the program, but is there any video effects in Imovie 08. I can find transitions and titling but no video effect, and if there is, than where? Please someone help me.

Use iMovie 6 to add effects to your video.

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Problems with video effects in iMovie

Hi, I'm a new user of imovie and I have found some difficulties: where is the video effects menu? In particular, it is possible to increase (or decrease) the speed of a clip?
Thanks for anyone who could help me,
Mac Shunsuke

iM08 offers no effects at all, that option was dropped by Apple..
you're entitled on a free download of iMHD6 here
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
which offers fast/slow/reverse as v/fx ..
another option is usage of a free 3rd party app, link and how-to on my site here
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/slowmowithim08
have you seen the tutorials for iM08?
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie

Is it permissible to upload a video on youtube with music, sounds effects, and video effects from imovie?

Lately, I've been editing and making videos for a local church in Mexico. I am not selling any of the videos. The are free to watch. However, is it permissible to upload a video with music, sound effects, and video effects from imovie? I using imovie version 10.0.2

This question comes up from time to time.
There are a number of con-men who think that they can earn a quick buck from claiming that they own the copyright to Apple’s royalty-free jingles and sound effects included with the iLife applications. These are all free to use, as clearly stated in section 2.C of the iLife Software License Agreement:
“You may use the Apple and third party audio content (“Audio Content”) contained in or otherwise included with the Apple software, on a royalty-free basis, to create your own original soundtracks for your video and audio projects. You may broadcast and/or distribute your own soundtracks that were created using the Audio Content, however, individual samples, sound sets, or audio content may not be commercially or otherwise distributed on a standalone basis, nor may they be repackaged in whole or in part as audio samples, sound files, sound effects or music beds.”
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/ilife09.pdf
You should quote this (also providing the above link) when following any dispute process with YouTube.

Does iMovie have Sound and Video Effects?

Before i begin filming my college film i wanted to ask and see if imovie has sound and video effects. what i mean is like, say in the film a gun is shot, well does imovie have a shot going off sound? are there sound effects? or am i asking in the wrong place and see if garageband has these?
also, video effects? i know imovie has like sepia and black and white tones among others but can i add other types of effects? if so, what kinds?
thanks!

you're looking for specific effects for your specific needs.. why not launching iM on your MacBook.. and look for your own..???
BEFORE doing a "serious" project, I would allway do some test/dummy projects, just to get comfortable with some software ...
plus:
the two additional audio tracks allow easiely to place small audio snippets, downloaded from anywhere in the web to your movie.. if you need explosions, gunshots, lightsabres, whatever, the iNet is full of sources...
plus:
you can teach iM lots of new tricks by installing/purchasing 3rd party plug-ins, if you need very special effects , iM does not support out-of-the-box.
plus:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html

ILife 08 iMovieLack of Video Effects

I loaded iLife 08 and like many of the features but it is a big step backwards especially in iMovie. A few issues are: When finished iMovie, the requirement is to export the movie to desktop and then import to iDVD 08. This seems to be the only way to get the iMovie into iDVD. It took me almost 5 hours to export the iMovie to the desktop and then another 3 hours to make the DVD in iDVD. The video was 58 minutes of mixed photos and movies combined on a recent trip I took. Additionally, the lack of tools in iMovie to enhance the video movies - i.e., rain, aged film, sepia, black and white etc are no longer there. Depressing as those things made movie making in iMovie 4, 5 and 6 really unique. A work around is to do the aforementioned things to your movie clips, export them to the desktop and then import them into iMovie 08. The effects work. if you import iMovie HD directly into iMovie 08, the effects are not present.
I hope Apple hears some of us grumbling and add these things back into iMovie 08. Sure is a hassel to use the old version to enhance the new version.
iDVD is OK and I like the auto chapter making the best but iMovie 08 NEEDS MAJOR IMPROVEMNENT!!

Yes, all very interesting but this is the iPHOTO forum.
Regards
TD

Video effects (none button) does not exist in inspector window

New to iMovie 09. Only issue I am having so far is finding the video effects. I select a clip and then open the inspector window. But when I click on "Clip", there is no "None" button to open the effects window. It only shows some info on "Stabilizatoin". Nothing else. Under the "Video" button are the exposure and color adjustments, etc.
I am sure I am overlooking something simple, but I have read through all documentation and this forum and nothing seems to be working. I have set "Show Advanced Options" from preferences.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated !

If you select the clip then hit Letter "i" for Inspector, you'll get a window that roughly looks like this (bottom half is missing because clipped it off). What you are most interested in clicking on is the Video Effect: pulldown menu. When you click on it, the Inspector flips around and gives you thumbnail images of all the video fx you can apply. I have iMovie '11, not '09 so your version might look slightly different.

Slow/fast/reverse in video effects

Hi I've just got the new iMac with iMovie 08. Does anyone know how I can get into the video effects and the slow/fast/reverse function?

I've just got the new iMac with iMovie 08. Does anyone know how I can get into the video effects and the slow/fast/reverse function?
Download and used the complementary copy of iMovie HD v6.0.4 if you want special effects/third-party plug-ins. iMovie '08 has no command structure for the threading of delayed third-party rendering modules. If you must use iMovie '08, create your special effects as either pre- or post-edits.

Video Effects Die Out

Hey,
Near the end of a video I'm making, the video effects I'm using just gradually stop. I'm using Edge Work and Flase Color, the video is 1:47 long, and the effects start dieing at 1:36 or so. Does anybody know why? Thanks!

.. so how do I check the format?..
YOU did select the 'format' of your project in the 'Create New Project' dialog...
.. I'm not sure which harddrive it's on..
.. if you don't know.. me no psychic ... same: when creating New Project, you did choose a location.. somewhere ... somehow ..
.. I do have an external one connected... ..
.. and you're using it as 'out-of-the-box'? ...- which is usually wrong formatted ... follow advice given here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1009.html
to use iM in its all shining glory, use it as a DV-editor, meaning: iMovie is by concept for working with firewire connected miniDV camcorders...
as long as you use iM as meant, no computer skills needed, if you try to teach the dog new tricks - you need some background know-how..
here's a good start for beginners:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html

Clip video effects suddenly aren't working on already-exported project!

I exported an iMovie 11 project to iTunes, and then realized I didn't apply color changes to it. I went back into iMovie, then trimmed a clip and it gave me the usual "you have edited your project, you'll have to finalize it again", or whatever it usually says. But then I went to edit the video effects, and no results are showing in the viewer...?

Reboot. For some reason, I had experienced a loss of audio in '11 on a couple of PROJECTS even though I clearly saw the streams still there as welll as the transition effects and after a reboot, they worked again. Plus, check your drive space. Depending on how long the video is, it may be taking up too much space therefore hosing up the memory.
I hope that helps.

Need to find Video Effect Button cuz its not in Inspector

In my iMovie 11 i have audio effect instead of video effects in the inspector.
i don't know how to change it/ or find video effects button. Help? thanks

It seems that you are opening the Inspector from a clip in the Event Library. Video effects are not available for Event clips. You need to create a Project, then drag clips (or segments of clips) from the Event to the project timeline. For a new Project, select from the menu File > New Project.
Double-click on a clip in the Project to open the Inspector. In the Inspector's Clip tab you will see the following:
Click on the Video Effect selection bar to reveal the following panel:
John

More than one video effect for same clip?

Is it possible to apply more than one video effect to the same clip? I know this could be done in previous versions of iMovie, but I can't seem to figure out how to accomplish this task in '09!!
Thanks!

In general, no, you cannot do two video effects at the same time.
However, black and white is a special case, because you can achieve this using Video Adjustments.
You can select Aged Film and then adjust to Black and White in Video Adjustments.
Try setting the Saturation slider all the way to the left (0%)
Then, move the Contrast slider to the right until it is around 50%.

Using video effects in quicktime pro

how can i access the video effects in quicktime pro every time i try and use the filters i cant apply them to the movie can any one help ie fade dissolve etc any threaaaaaaad would help can not find anything in the manuals have been looking for hours ??????????????

Only looking for hours?
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/RedneckTexasXmas/index.html
A "movie" made from still images and some sound tracks. All made using QuickTime Pro.
The "transitions" were made by taking the still images and adding them "scaled" to a ten second audio track. The audio was deleted so then I had about 50 little ten second videos. Two of these videos were merged into one file using:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/samplemakeeffectmovie/index.html
Thousands of combinations can be created.
They were all added over another QT track (map of Texas) and their position and transparency levels and layers were adjusted. Last I copied all of this file and added it "scaled" to my two sound tracks.
The "filters" can be accessed via the Export "Movie to QuickTIme Movie" but they are applied to the entire file at export. If you wish to use more than one filter you should first create separate files from your source project.
The end result (a 4 MB file) would require over 300 MB's if done in an application like iMovie. The transitions add nearly nothing to the total file size when you do them using QuickTIme Pro.

Does iMovie have an effect similar to Photoshop's "Match Color Tool"?

Here's a question for the iMovie pros...
There is an effect in Photoshop which is brilliant - if you already have a photo open you can use the "match color" feature to change the colors of your photo from another image file... that file could be a famous painting... the results are fantastic!
Does iMovie have an effect or a plugin that would do this? I can't find any information.

it's bigger brother FCPX has such an effect for video.-
no plug-ins for the actual version of iMovie.
for sure, when double-click a clip in iM, the Inspector/Video offers some basic color-corrections/-manipulations, such as moving the white-point.
your examples are a bit more tricky, due to some colors are not affected - ex #1 the sky stays blue allthough the color-temperature is set to more 'warmth'.
ex #2, the guy, is simpler: raise brightness, add warmth, raise saturation ......

Video effects (Soft Focus) on photos

Hi again,
I'm trying to place a video effect onto a photo, but imovie has to convert to a clip and the image turns green (and the effect looks awful). Is there something I can do, or do some effects not work well on stills?
Thanks
Kevin

Probably better to make the effect on a photo before importing it into iMovie.
I would suggest investing in GraphicConverter or, if $$ is no problem, Photoshop.

Video Effects Problems

When I go through my video effects and preview them I get white lines, white fragments (blocky), and or the whole screen turns white. When I click on the first effect it works fine and I can adjust the settings but when I go to the next one, thats when video turns bad. I have to click out of video effects to reset the image. This problem just started for me. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem.
Also, I recently installed FCE 4. Would this have anything to do with it. Since installing FCE 4 my rendering time has slowed way down in iMovie 06.
Thanks.

T -
I get a similar problem when I preview effects. I just assumed this was some kind of result of max-ing out on processing the preview, so I usually just click onto some other effect outside of the Quartz composer and then click back in and it's fine. I wouldn't worry about it, unless what I suggest won't work. I found this when I was looking to find out why adding video effects takes so long to process. It looks like video is just processor-intensive, any way you look at it.
good luck.....

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