IMovie View special effect beat markers

I am not sure what "Beat Markers" does in iMovie. Please explain. Thanks,

Here is another resource. http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html#markers
Here is a sample of a project using beat markers.

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IMovie 09 special effects

I've recently installed iMovie 09 and I'm curious where the special effects have gone (lighting, fog, rain, etc.). Are there any third party plug-ins that allow this.
I've searched the boards and haven't come up with anything. Any help / suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Brent Sloan wrote:
..where the special effects have gone (lighting, fog, rain, etc.).
no such effects anymore ... only the ones, you see..
.. Are there any third party plug-ins that allow this.
no plug-ins for iM08/09 anymore due to lack of an API..
your options are:
keep iMHD6
purchase FinalCutExpress

IMovie '08 special effects

Are there any special effects in iMovie '08 from iLife '08?

Are there any special effects in iMovie '08 from iLife '08?
Only the ones built into the application (i.e., titles, transitions, QT filters, etc.) at this time. Edit in iMovie HD if special effects are required or learn how create your own effects for use in iMovie '08.

Imovie '11 special effects

i want to use the special effect of "flash and hold last frame". but when i go and click on "clip" in the menu, the drop down under special effects is greyed out. what am i doing wrong?

you can add effects only to clips in a Project …

Can't find iMovie special effects

I have found the advance tools, but it looks like it only affects color. The older iMovie had special effects like rain, lightning bolt, ... Where are they in '08?

There are no "effects" in iMovie 7.
You can still use your older iMovie 6 if you need them in your "video".

How to keep transitions from throwing off beat markers?

I love using View/Snap to Beats when adding a series of photos to a soundtrack! Right now I am using iMovie 9.0.9 vs iMovie 11 since i believe beat markers have been eliminated. Anyway, perhaps in a version a little earlier than 9.0.9, the markers landed near the middle of 2.0s transitions, so that the photos in synch with the music. But now, the markers start at the very beginning of transitions, so that all the photos are noticeably behind the music! What a bummer. . . . until i figure this out! hopefully with your help. This is the first time I have ever entered anything to Support discussions. Thanks, Ko
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Hello Ko
In iMovie ’11 there are beat markers. Check out the articles below to go through the steps for adding beat markers.
iMovie '11: Add beat markers to music and other audio clips
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2262
iMovie '11: Synchronize video clips with background music using “Snap to Beats”
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2265
Regards,
-Norm G.

IMovie 10.0 Not "snapping" photos to beat markers in audio

Hi,
I recently upgraded to iMovie 10.0 and haven't been able to figure out how to add photos to an audio clip with beat markers. What I did with the previous version was: Add the audio, add the beat markers, "drop" the selected photos (from Finder) onto the audio and voila!...
But with the new version: When I add the photos they are all coming in with a default 4.0s time when they should be "snapping" to the beat markers. I tried looking for the preferences but I have not been able to find anywhere to specify that the photos should, by default, snap to the beat markers and only be given a default time if there is no audio or there are no beat markers. Has anyone else been using the new iMovie and gotten this to work?
Also, in the Clip Trimmer I used to be able to see the total number of beat markers. Does anyone know where I can find that information with 10.0? Perhaps the problem is that the number of beat markers isn't matching the number of photos...I may have missed/added one by mistake.
Thanks,
Rob

Hello Sabatica,
Brian here. While I too couldn't find the beat markers feature in the new iMovie, I did find how to edit waveforms.
It's there, but you have to look for it (not like you should have to but you know what I mean).
Open the new iMovie, and on the far right underneath the viewer you'll see a "film bubble" looking icon. Click that.
Here's what you should see:
As you can see, I've checked mine off already.
Now, for the editing part. If you Option-click (much like Final Cut) on the volume level line (the black line in the middle of the waveform), you can create edit points. I use four, so I have better control. See below:
Put your cusor in between these two sets of points, and drag down.
Like this. I hope this helps!
Sincerely,
Brian K. James

Snap to beat markers: I'm using iMovie 11. Trying to prepare short movie of holiday using 2 or 3 songs and snap to beat feature. It worked great for first segment/song but I can't seem to get it to work for the second song. Help please.

I'm using iMovie to prepare a short holiday video. Snap to beat markers worked great for the first song but doesn't seem to work when I try to extend my project with a second song and more video and stills. I dragged in the song and marked the beats but when I bring in stils and video clips they just ignore the beat markers. Can anyone help please. Thanks.

I am having the same issue. The first song and beat markers work great. I add a second song and set beat markers. When I add photos, the appear at random spots with random lengths. I haven't seen a pattern yet. Spent 30 minutes on this topic at my last 1:1 session in the store. No luck figuring it out.
One work-around might be to create one song per project (so beat markers work), then combine the two (or more) projects. But I'm not sure if that's possible or how to do it.
Thanks for any help on this.

IMovie special effects gone with 08?

are the special effects from imovie gone? im talking about where you can put clips in slow motion and reverse them, do lightning effects, and mirror. i cant figure out how to get to them if they're still there.

i just imported some of my old clips from iMovie 06. it stripped them of the effects though, thats why i wanted to know how to add them again and everywhere i've looked they're saying that there aren�t any right now. i might ask apple if they plan on adding them and will it be a free upgrade because i know more people than me are hurt by this lack of effects
as for making new projects, i clicked the "+" in the bottom left hand corner, and it let me create a new project. they keep all of your old clips in the same "bank" though, they're not separate. but unfortunately they don't keep your movies how they were the old iMovie, they give you bare clips. you have to make them again, unless you had effects, then you cant because of the obvious.

Unwanted special effects in iMovie 6

Macbook pro OSX 10.6.8 iMovie 6
I know i should upgrade but the newer iMovies are not intuitive and v6 does everything i need it to.
Some unwanted special effects are suddenly appearing in my iMovie 6, flying saucers, fireworks, balloons floating thru, flipping, waving screens. I think it must be coming from some shareware installation i looked at for some special purpose, maybe masking or subtitles, but i cannot find any on my computer, (except MeditEdit).
Importing directly from my camera, which i frequently do, is totally messed up.
I have thrown away all the preferences i can find but they keep coming back everytime i open the application iMovie.
Where are they?
What software installed this?
How do i shut it off or kill it?
Help.

Hi
First
• trash iMovie pref files - in User library/preferences - You've said You've done that
• repair permissions - Disk Util tool
Then You can now look into User library/iMovie and here Plug-ins
• I moved all of them out onto DeskTop/Finder - when iMovie IS NOT running.
• Now test iMovie
Alt: Start a new User Account
• Log into this
• Re-try iMovie
Does it run OK now ?
Yours Bengt W

Special effects editing question for iMovie '09

Hi,
I understand that iMovie '09 doesn't support many (any?) add-on software packages for special effects editing.
Meanwhile, I'm editing some sports clips in iMovie '09,, in which I'd love to have a "spotlight" on a player, (where the other action/background is dimmed), or use an arrow to point at a player---that sort of thing.
Is there a way to---say, do this edit in iMovie HD, or iMovie '06, with special software, then re-import it back into my iMovie '09 project?

Ziatron,
Thanks for your reply. When you say you use iMovie '06 with iDVD 09 all the time---can you explain further? I guess I go back to my original question---Would iMovie '09 "accept" the edit done in iMovie HD or iMovie '06?
I do like the organizing layout (boxes with titles) much better on the previous versions, as well as some more detailed audio editing---but I'm grudgingly moved on to iMovie 09, and have already loaded a lot of my material (and keyworded them) into iMovie 09. I think I'm going to stick it out with this project.
Thanks in advance for any further advice you can share.
TJ

How to move beat markers in iMovie 9.0.7

I am trying to move some of the beat markers I put down in a photo DVD I created. I have all the beat markers and pictures all set so I only want to move certain beat markers slightly when they are to close together.
Thanks!

Hi rsrskinner,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you would like to adjust your beat markers in iMovie. Please use the attached article for information on beat markers in iMovie ’11.
iMovie '11: Add beat markers to music and other audio clips
To reposition a beat marker, drag it to a new position in the Clip Trimmer.
Have a great day,
Joe

What happened to the special effects from the old iMovie (Smoke, Rain, etc.) It's not on the new version and I need/want it!

I remember older versions of iMovie having special video effects like smoke, lightning, and rain. Where are they hiding in the new version? If they are no longer included is there a download or work around? I need them for a school project I'm helping my 11 year old with.

Workaround? I did these effects on my iPhone and then imported to my Mac for editing. I have lightning, but no smoke or rain. I used an iPhone App called Action Movie.

When I try to drag titles or special effect into my clip in imovie it doesn't work can anyone help me?

When I try to drag titles or special effect into my clip in imovie it doesn't work can anyone help me?

Assuming you have (1) signed out, then (2) waited 30 minutes and it didn't work you will need to contact iTunes again.

Special effects in 08 imovie?

Just upgraded to 08 imovie only to find no "special video effects" such as Bloom, rain, fog etc etc. Very disappointing. I stopped by Apple store and this was confirmed as well. Are there any add on special effects products out there?

The part you are getting lost on I take it is that in order to import a project into iMovie HD ('06), the necessary video files are copied into a new iMovie project.
Which is why I recommended that anyone doing video editing should be using a secondary drive for storage. As an example, if you have a 160 GB drive, you should try to keep about 24 GBs free for optimum operation. As you have 26 GBs of original data which you are in effect duplicating, then before even starting the "double-import" work flow, you should have 70 MBs of free space available. Sounds like you may have had only 50 MBs or less and that doesn't include whatever disk caching setting you may be using or caching for any and all applications which may be simultaneously open.
You wrongly assume that I would have a spare external drive laying around to do a 26GB transfer.
I make no assumptions here. I am merely stating the fact that if you plan to do video editing, you need both adequate RAM and disk storage space available. If you don't, you are bound to have such problems on a regular basis. With 160-320 MB triple-interface drives available in the $100-$200 range it seems less than productive not to at least consider the purchase of one. (Cheaper drives are available but are probably not the best choice where video capture is involved.)
Besides, do you know how long it takes to do a 26GB transfer?
Can't say as I do on your system. It took me 17 minutes and 32 seconds to transfer 26 GBs while simultaneously compressing a feature film to H.264 (for TV use) and answering these questions.
Instead of all this iMovie '08 to iMovie HD ('06) Tomfoolery, which, in my opinion, is a really big error on Apple's part, I went out and purchased Final Cut Express. I did my basic scene editing in iMovie '08 (which, by the way, it seems to do rather well) and exported the projects to a FCE XML document.
Well, that is one option that I did not previously consider. However, remember that sooner or later if you do any editing in FCE segment/files will likely have to be rendered from the reference source files and this will again start to eat up storage space. Assume you are using FCE v4 here. If not, you may expect to run into some path problems with your XMLs which will likely have to be restored manually.

IMovie View special effect beat markers

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