Get Your Touch On
Apple may not feel that touchscreen computers are in its future, but they aren’t shy about adding multitouch gestures to their desktop apps for laptop users and those of us rocking a Magic Trackpad. iMovie ’11 is no exception, and features a trio of such gestures.

The first multitouch tip enables adding new media to your Project, which is done by first selecting a clip (or portion of a clip) in the Event browser and then using three fingers to swipe up on the trackpad. Just like magic, your selection is now added to the end of your project.

The second gesture allows you to expand or contract filmstrips by moving the pointer over the Event or Project browser and pinching two fingers closed to contract or pinching two fingers open to expand — a gesture that should be very familiar to users of the company’s iOS devices.

Current Apple users are in luck. IMovie for macOS requires only 2GB of RAM and an OS X Mavericks to edit videos. Editors who want to make the most of the program are recommended to have a 2011 iMac or Macbook Pro with at least 4GB of RAM. These devices can export videos with 4K resolution. In addition to previewing Mac OS X 10.7—which Apple calls “Lion”—the company also released an updated version of iLife, rolled out a dekstop version of its FaceTime video-conferencing.

Check out Mission Control, a new feature for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Mission Control combines some features of Spaces and Expose and creates a new interface in Mac OS X for navigating between apps. You can give apps their own screen and flip between screens easily. But now it looks like I can't get any iMovie version- when I try to install from Apple, it just tells me I'll need a newer OS to install it. Lion (10.7) Formatting OSX Lion. Reddit's community for users, developers, and hackers of Mac OS X – the desktop operating system from Apple. Created Jan 25, 2008. Download iMovie for macOS 10.15.6 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. ‎With a streamlined design and intuitive editing features, iMovie lets you create Hollywood-style trailers and beautiful movies like never before. Browse your video library, share favorite moments, and create beautiful movies that you can edit at resolutions up to 4K.

Finally, if you want to move a clip within your project to either the left or right of the clip next to it, simply select the desired clip and then swipe left or right with three fingers accordingly. Let’s see iMovie’s big brother, Final Cut Pro, do that!

Import Movies Directly from Your iPhone
Although the new desktop version of iMovie ’11 is sadly lacking in any interoperability with the stripped-down iOS version, there is one welcome iPhone-related change from iMovie ’09 — you can now plug in your iPhone and iMovie will recognize it and offer to import any movies in your Camera Roll.

This newfound ability might not have been such a big deal in the iPhone 3GS days with its low-resolution SD camera, but it’s now a must-have for the iPhone 4’s 720p HD video — especially for more ambitious projects that go beyond the scope of the mobile version of iMovie. (Note that import will also work on the 3GS, for those of you still rockin’ last year’s handset.)

Analyze This
iMovie ’09 added a very welcome Stabilization function to the program’s bag of tricks in order to help smooth out jumpy or handheld footage. That function first required a clip to be analyzed in order to perform its magic, which could be a lengthy process for longer pieces of video.

Now that Apple has added the People Finder feature to iMovie ’11, you’ll be happy to know that you can analyze clips for both Stabilization and People in one fell swoop — along with the option to do only Stabilization or only People.

Crossover for mac os x download. Free 14-day trial of CrossOver Mac. Run Windows on a Mac without rebooting, no virtual machine and no buying a Windows license. 1 minute download. CrossOver runs Windows productivity software, utility programs, and games all in one application on your mac. And without the overhead of a virtual machine, Windows software and games can run as fast or faster than they would under a Windows operating system. Download our free fully functional 14-day trial today! BUY NOW DOWNLOAD FREE TRIAL.

Clips that have already been analyzed for Stabilization can also now be marked for camera pans, noting when the camera moves left or right. Choose File > Analyze Video > Mark Camera Pans and now video with camera pans will be indicated with a blue line across the top of the clip, and you can even filter for those type of actions when your editing calls for it.

Viewing Your Timeline In A More Traditional Way

When iMovie ’08 was first released in mid-2007, many of us who were used to more traditional ways of editing were stymied by the way projects were now viewed in a stacked ribbon — since the dawn of non-linear editing, timelines have mostly been viewed as one seemingly endless horizontal strip. Someone at Apple must have taken note of the fact that we still haven’t quite adjusted to it three years later, so now you can take matters into your own hands.

First navigate to iMovie>Preferences and turn on Show Advanced Tools under the General tab.

In the upper right corner of the Project window, you’ll now find a new Horizontal Display button to the left of the chapter mark tool. With a stacked view in your Project, click the Horizontal Display button and you’ll now see a nice clean, all-horizontal view of your project as you edit. Click it again to go back to the classic stacked view, but only if you must!

Making iMovie ’11 More Like Final Cut

These tips aren’t new to iMovie ’11, but f you want the program to look more like the traditional view of higher-end apps like Final Cut Pro.

Switch the timeline to the bottom of the screen and your unedited media to the top by selecting Window > Swap Events and Projects (or click the Swap button positioned between the windows, to the right of the Import button). After a fancy animated switcheroo, your Event Library and media now appear at the top of the display and your timeline resides at the bottom, a view that will likely be more comfortable to seasoned editors.

The horizontal timeline view and window swap tips work best If you also happen to have a second display attached to your computer. In iMovie ’11, you can select Window > Viewer on Other Display and move your view of the edited project to its own screen, giving you the entire top (or bottom) of the iMovie display to see your newly emancipated Project timeline — and have a swanky editing setup just like the pros use.

Title Duplicate
If you spend a lot of time creating videos with iMovie, you’ll certainly appreciate some of the new version’s little niceties, many of which have been moved from the Edit menu and grouped into a new Clip menu along with the new one-step effects.

For instance, how many times have you created a project with a number of similar title cards, spending valuable time having to add a stock title each time and then editing it to match the length and font style of your previous one? Now all you need to do is select a clip (or range of frames) and choose Clip > Duplicate Last Title, edit the text to suit you and move on.

Inspecting Your Inspector
With your iMovie Preferences set up to edit a clip when you double-click on it (rather than Play the clip), the clip Inspector is always available quickly, same as in the previous iMovie ’09. But there are some cool new functions tucked away there that you may have overlooked.
In addition to now changing the speed of a clip without having to convert it first (by moving the slider or typing the speed you want as a percentage), you can now reverse it with a single click, a nifty tool which has been available on more sophisticated non-linear editors for some time.

iMovie ’11 also adds a new Rolling Shutter option which helps to cut down on wobbly or skewed video caused by the CMOS image sensor still prevalent on most consumer camcorders. Click on “Reduce motion distortion” to enable it for a clip and after your video is analyzed, use the pulldown to select an amount from None to Extra High. Apple recommends High or Extra High for footage shot with a Flip camcorder or a mobile phone that records video, which presumably includes the iPhone 4. (It did indeed look better in our quick, unscientific tests.)

Equalize Your iLife
Audio is a big focus of iMovie ’11, with most of the spotlight on the slick new audio waveform mode to adjust levels and see color-coded warnings where the sound might be too overpowering. But Apple has also beefed up audio options in the Inspector as well, including a new Equalizer.

Open the clip in question, select the Audio tab on the Inspector and you’ll see the new Equalizer function, which you can customize entirely on your own or pick from one of nine presets, including Voice Enhance, Music Enhance and Hum Reduction, which should help tame less than dynamic audio recordings and keep annoying electrical line hums at bay.

Apple’s engineers didn’t stop there, also adding an audio Enhance mode — click on “Reduce background noise by” and adjust the slider, then listen to the results. We tried it on some clips recorded near a busy highway and it worked quite well, bringing down the unwanted background noise and making people speaking in the foreground that much more audible.

Audio Effects

While iMovie ’09 had some very capable video effects, this year’s release adds an equal number of audio effects to spice up most any production.

To get to the audio effects, select a clip. Click on the Inspector button or go to Window>Clip Adjustment in the Menu Bar.

Click on Audio Effect in the Clip tab.

In addition to specialized effects such as Robot, Cosmic and Telephone, you also have the ability to add Echo, four sizes of Room Echo and four variations of Pitch Down or Pitch Up.

Integrate with Facebook

Thanks to the updated iPhoto, the whole iLife ’11 benefits from deeper integration with the social network everyone loves to hate, Facebook. That integration also carries over to iMovie, where you can now choose from your online Facebook photos to import into a project, as well as the traditional iPhoto and PhotoBooth options.

Keep in mind that you’ll first need to open iPhoto ’11 and let the program sync with Facebook, which will then carry those photo albums into your iLife Media Browser and make them available to all supported programs.

Contextual Menus
Apple hasn’t forgotten about the ever-handy contextual menus in iMovie ’11; functions such as Loop Selection and the ability to both Analyze and Optimize clips have been added to adjust clips within a Project, as well as the aforementioned new Duplicate Last Title and options to Arrange Music Tracks and select your Project Theme.

Event browser clips can also now be looped or have their video analyzed — for Stabilization and People, Stabilization only, People only to to Mark Camera Pans. There is also the ability to Split Event Before Clip as well as the same shortcut to make adjustments to your Project Theme.

In addition to the contextual menus we’ve all come to love and depend on, you can launch the Inspector directly from a clip and put iMovie ’11 in Precision editor Mode by clicking on the gear that appears when you hover over a clip.

Storyboard Like a Pro
iMovie ’11 is touting a Movie Trailers mode, giving you the ability to create short, Hollywood-style previews with just a few clicks. But you can also use the animatics provided by the Movie Trailers feature to rough out your own project, and then swap them out for footage you shoot later.

Go to Window > Maps, Backgrounds and Animatics (which used to be called just Maps & Backgrounds) and scroll down to find 16 animatics, which are essentially motion-enabled dummy clips for various camera angles, such as Closeup, Medium, Wide, Landscape and Animal.

iMovie ’11 provides a mix of clips for males or females — simply drag & drop one of them to your timeline and you’ll have a filler clip that can later be replaced with a real clip by dragging the new clip onto the animatic. Release your mouse button and click Replace, and the job is done. Animatics are a great way to organize your thoughts and plan for footage you haven’t had time to shoot, but still be able to see if your concept fits into your work-in-progress.

iMovie is the video editing software for the average Joe. Well, any average Joe that uses an Apple device. This is the go-to program for those who want to start editing their own videos. Like all Apple products, it is simple and functions easily across connected Apple libraries and devices. Once your Apple devices are synced, iMovie can serve as a home movie portal. It conveniently stores and organizes all imported photo and video files. Even better, it takes advantage of iCloud and iMovie Theater program to give you a platform to debut videos, movies and trailers in 4K resolution in any Apple device and HDTV.

Personalize your videos

iMovie’s feature improves your video’s appearance and audio.

Ever taken a video on the fly? It's unpredictable. Once videos and photos have been imported, you can trim clips, add close-ups, enhance audio, and even remove sound, and comes handy when you want to make changes, but don't know where to begin. Preview with Trailers: you can make any video look like a blockbuster when you use iMovie’s Hollywood-inspired movie trailers. Each template has its own original score, graphics, and animated transitions. The transitions are predetermined visual breaks created by the photos and videos you import. To add a more personal touch, you can add their own movie title, end credits, and even a customized studio logo.

Create Movies: iMovie is one of the easiest video editing tools to use, letting editors click and drag imported clips into the timeline, as well as automatically lock on adjacent videos. An important tool is the Precision Editor. It controls when a video fades in or out by showing an exact timestamp before and after the transition. Another important feature is Clip Connection, which holds all media together when you move a clip.

In addition to trimming, you can even crop and rotate videos. Yup. That's right. Both photos and videos. The difference between the two media sources is the Ken Burns pan-and-zoom effect that photos automatically get. The effect is more engaging than ever before.

Then there's the Autocorrect button—the cherry on top. Like a magic wand, it enhances the lighting and color on all kinds of videos. It’s a huge help in videos shot on the spot where little thought was given to lighting and color. Other common video enhancing tools are color matching for a seamless filter on every frame, white balance from a specific area in each frame, and the dropper tool to enhance colors and skin tones.

Edit anywhere, anytime

Apple sets iMovie apart from other entry-level video editors by making it compatible with Apple desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablet devices. Of course, the iPhone and iPad versions do not have all the features of the desktop version. Yet, it is incredibly useful for anyone who has an idea for a video and wants to conceptualize it. To put it simply, it is a lifesaver for creative ideas, especially in the eyes of professional video editors. Simply select the video or videos you want to edit on the Photos app. Click Edit and the iMovie app will automatically launch your already-imported videos. Once you have started creating your movie on the app, it will be uploaded on iCloud and you will be able to work across various Apple devices.

Another perk of having the app version in your iPhone or iPad is that you can create productions like daily video diaries and vlogs in a snap. When you’re finished, you can send the final product thru iMessage, Facebook, email, and other social media platforms.

Full support

Apple Inc. offers a well-organized and detailed customer support website. You can find a solution for every Apple product. In Apple’s customer support website, you will find user guides, tutorials, and support communities. You can also schedule a phone, live chat, email and have one-to-one support if you need a more detailed guide. It is important to know that Apple does not have an email address published online, so all inquiries should be made on Apple’s official customer support website or their hotlines.

Where can you run this program?

Because iMovie exclusively runs on Apple devices, Windows users will have to run on over to the Apple store if they want to get their hands on the video editing software app. Not only is it free for all new macOS and iOS devices, it's pre-installed! This latter feature exceeds expectations and offers a bit more value. Users who are looking to take the plunge can feel free to try out Apple devices on display or ask for assistance.

Current Apple users are in luck. iMovie for macOS requires only 2GB of RAM and an OS X Mavericks to edit videos. Editors who want to make the most of the program are recommended to have a 2011 iMac or Macbook Pro with at least 4GB of RAM. These devices can export videos with 4K resolution. The latest version of iMovie, version 10.1.11 requires OS X 10.11.2 or later.

Is there a better alternative?

In general, other entry-level video editing tools don’t hold up to iMovie’s sleek and intuitive interface and its vast array of features. Wondershare Filmora, however, is a strong competitor. The video editing software is an established name amongst Apple and Windows users. Both its free and paid versions offer standard trimming, transitions, overlays, and effects. You can even put together one hundred layers of media—a feature that iMovie lacks.

Our take

Imovie For Mac Download

iMovie is the user-friendly video editing application that turns your footage into stunning productions.The final output is not as sleek and professional as that of Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or other professional editing tools, but that's all right. This software app is for dabblers, tinkerers and enthusiasts wanting to get those creative juices flowing without feeling overwhelmed.

Should you download it?

Imovie For Mac Os X Lion Full

Yes. It’s a powerful yet simple tool that you can use to impress your friends, family, and colleagues.

10.1.11