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Nov. 05, 1999 Issue > Designers
iMovie Makes the Scene
By Derrick Story
Rank: 3
Using iMovie to Create Web Video
This stylish DV movie editor is perfect for creating multimedia web content. For our home movie example, we chose footage shot by a father whose son is playing in a Pop Warner football game. Notice the title screens, transitions, and sound effects we were able to add using iMovie.
Version One—240 x 180 at 10 fps, 58 seconds running time, file size is 5.5 Mbytes.
Version Two—160 x 120 at 10 fps, 58 seconds running time, file size is 2.8 Mbytes.
Is iMovie a Powerful Tool, or Just Another Techno Toy?
I'll tell you why I've never had the desire to own a video camera.
A few years back I was taking pictures at the Huntington Library gardens in Southern California. What a beautiful place. At one point late in the afternoon I observed this man in the Japanese garden pointing a video camera at a motionless stone Buddha. The camera's red recording light was on. The Buddha was absolutely still (as stone Buddhas tend to be). After nearly a minute of contemplating how boring his vacation videos must be, I swore to myself that I would never submit my friends, relatives, or even casual enemies to this kind of optical torture. Either I'd do it right or not at all.
Video, more than any other medium I can think of, requires editing. And in all fairness, folks don't edit their videos because the tools needed to do so have been too expensive and too difficult to learn. That is, until now.
A few weeks ago Apple introduced the iMac DV Special Edition. The "DV" represents this new iMac's ability to capture, edit, and play digital video—including DVD movies on disc. Clearly this iMac, more than any before it, is designed to publish multimedia. How it accomplishes that goal is the subject of this review.
The hardware/software package
The DV Special Edition seems to have the brawn to accomplish the job. On the hardware side, the iMac is powered by a G3 400 MHz processor with 512k level 2 backside cache and a 100 MHz system bus. Even though the specs are impressive by traditional iMac standards, every hoof of this horsepower is required to process multimedia. In fact, if you're serious about video editing, I strongly recommend the Special Edition DV model over the standard DV model even though it costs $200 more. Why? Because the standard edition has a less powerful processor (350 MHz), half as much RAM (64 Mbyte), a smaller hard drive (10 Gigabyte), and no external VGA port. When it comes to video editing, bigger is definitely better, and the Special Edition is bigger.
Rounding out the DV Special Edition specs are the following:
128 Mbyte SDRAM chip—it's ample memory to run the featured applications, but I would add even more RAM when chip prices stabilize again.
ATI Rage 128 VR graphics card with 8 Mbytes video memory. Increases the performance of the 15" screen—you can have millions of colors up to 1024 x 768 resolution.
13 Gigabyte Ultra ATA hard drive.
Two FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports.
Two USB ports—very handy if you have a Windows '98 machine too. External devices, such as USB Zip drives work equally well with USB-equipped iMacs and PCs. Since they're hot-swappable, it's a cinch to move them from machine to machine.
Slot-loading DVD that's also a 24x CD ROM drive. New slot-loading feature is very slick.
15" CRT monitor with external VGA output port providing video mirroring.
Built-in front panel microphone and side panel external microphone jack.
Two front panel headphone jacks and one side panel jack.
Full networking capabilities: 56k modem and 10/100 Base-T Ethernet card with an RJ-11 connector.
Redesigned Harman Kardon speakers.
Going price is $1,499 for iMac DV Special Edition ($1,299 for standard DV model).
The DV software package is commendable. Included are the usual array of goodies, including AppleWorks, Quicken, World Book Encyclopedia, browsers, e-mail, and more. But what makes the DV edition a "I've never seen anything like this before!" workstation is a brand new application called iMovie. Most likely you've already heard some hype about this software. Here's how it works.
iMovie is a model of simplicity
As a rule, I hate video editing applications. They're too hard to use, and it takes too long to create a decent video.
iMovie changes all that. Total time, from when I plugged a Sony TRV900 DV camera into the iMac's FireWire port, until the time I had completed my first 2 minute movie (including transitions, title screens, and sound effects), was 55 minutes—and that included learning how to use the application itself. To put this in perspective, it took me a couple of days to get comfortable with MS Word 98, a couple of weeks to really learn Adobe GoLive, and years later, I'm still trying to master Photoshop. I learned everything I needed to know about iMovie in two hours.
Of course simplicity, as beautiful as it is, has its tradeoffs. Certainly there are a few disappointments with iMovie. For example, if you think you're getting a nifty all purpose QuickTime editor for your existing content, think different. iMovie won't let you directly open and edit QuickTime clips. It saves files in a "project" format, and that's all it will open.
According to a recent Apple tech paper, you can export your existing QuickTime movies (in QT Pro) using the "Movie to DV Stream" option, then sneak them into an iMovie project folder. From there you can edit using iMovie's powerful feature set. This is certainly a less than elegant procedure for such an otherwise stylish application.
Also, in theory, if you have an analog video camera with an adapter, you might be able to use iMovie's uploading features, but I didn't test this and I wouldn't count on it being that much easier than your current system for importing analog video.
On the other hand, if you have a DV camera with a FireWire port and want an easy way to download, watch, edit, and share your videos, iMovie is amazing.
iMovie's interface and controls
The iMovie interface has four basic elements:
Viewing monitor, with scrubber bar and volume, play, pause, and rewind controls.
Clip shelf, where clips are initially stored when captured from the DV camera.
Clip viewer, which is used for arranging clips, transitions and title screens.
Special effects palette, which features titles, transitions, music, and sound options.
Figure 1. iMovie's interface is the model of simplicity.
Additional controls include "edit" and "camera" mode selection buttons, "import" button, free space indicator (for hard drive), trash can, sound selector bar, and full screen video playback button.
Once the DV camera is connected via the FireWire port, iMovie confirms the connection (if you're in "camera" mode). You can use iMovie's control buttons to view the video on screen in real time. This is an outstanding feature. Being able to use the mouse to control playback and view it on the crisp 15" monitor is very convenient. Watching the camera obey the iMac's commands with digital precision is lots fun and even better than playing with a cable television remote control. I don't know, maybe it's a guy thing.
The quality of the Sony TRV900 playback on the iMac's monitor is beautiful. Colors are saturated, definition is sharp, and the sound fidelity is clear. When you find a segment that you want to include in your final movie, simply click the "import" button during playback. iMovie will record the video and sound until you hit the "import" button once again, stopping the capture mode. There's no degradation of performance during video capture. Everything just keeps rolling along.
Once a clip is recorded, it's placed on the clip shelf. You can use the generic name for the clip supplied by the application or, if you wish, specify a more descriptive term. Clips can be reviewed in the viewing monitor by simply double-clicking on them when the application is in "edit" mode. The duration of each clip is displayed in the upper left corner of its thumbnail image.
Based on this performance, it's conceivable to consider the iMac a dedicated DV viewer. There's no easier way to watch and download DV. But the real power of iMovie is its ability to convert miles of raw digital footage into a video worthy of streaming on the Internet, burning onto a CD, or viewing with friends and family directly on the computer.
In part two, I'll walk you through the process of editing your DV footage, then preparing your movie for streaming on the Internet.
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