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iMovie is design for the ordinary Mac users who want to add some spice to their digital life. It's quite intuitive and the built-in library makes it very easy to organize your owned videos and movies. The format compatibility of iMovie is a headache for many people, so this article is to provide you a detailed guide on how to import, edit and export your videos or movies in iMovie and the whole article will be divided into three major parts.

Part 1: Import videos or DVD clips to iMovie

MOV and MP4 format videos can be imported to iMovie directly. However, the formats of videos downloaded from You Tube or BT are usually not compatible with iMovie. And sometime you might want to import, for example a WMV format video in your computer to iMovie. In such cases, you can refer to "how to import video to iMovie".
Many Mac users want to import their camcorder videos to iMovie for editing .Certain camcorders can be automatically detected by iMovie when connected to Mac with USB or firewire cable. You can refer to Apple's instruction for more information.

DVD movies are useful source for our movie projects. We can extract the audio of the movie or add our own songs to movie clips. If you want to import DVD clips to iMovie for editing, here is a detailed tutorial for your information.

Part 2: Frequently used editing functions of iMovie 08

Audio extraction:

Video Trimming:

Apply transitions:

Cropping and Rotating:

Note: There are some new features in iMovie, you can go to Apple's iMovie Guided Tour.

Part3: Share your edited movies with your friends, family or the world

When you finished editing the videos, go to "Share" and select a way to export your videos. You can export it to iTunes or You Tube directly or you can just select "export movie" to save it to a folder you want.

Take export to You Tube for example.

Step 1: Go to "share"---"You Tube" and click "Add" in the pop-up window
Step 2: If you don't have a You Tube account, create one first. After you log in You Tube website, return to iMovie and click "Confirm sign in"
Step 3: In the pop-up window, choose a category and give a title and a description of your movie. Click "next" and then Click "Agree" in the next window
Step 4: Click "Finish"

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