iMovie Editing Help

[runninmac]

So I just started trying to spice up my first short video my friends and I made but I don't seem to understand how to chose when a effect comes in and out. I see the sliders for it saying "effect in" and "effect out" but I just don't get what it means. I want an effect to come in 50 seconds into the clip and end 54 seconds into the clip but when I type it in it says "Invalid Time-code". Any help would be appreciated.

 

[liketom]

some way of doing this would be ....

1 clip in main panel X amount in lenght select the desired edit point and click in the video clip and then press Apple key + T to split the clip there then when you want to add the "effect" just press apply to it , for a transition just drag that bad boy over the split cliop and it will render itself there.


hope that helps

 

[bloogersnigen]

is the clip 54 sec?

Ben

 

[liketom]

Your clip needs to be 104 sec (50+54).

no if he splits at 50s in the main clip pane , then in the effect start at 0.00 end at 4.00 seconds

 

[runninmac]

no if he splits at 50s in the main clip pane , then in the effect start at 0.00 end at 4.00 seconds

Thanks im rendering this right now, ill keep it posted on how it turns out

 

[runninmac]

It got done rendering. I split the clip at 50 and then put the settings to the picture below. But the effect went through the whole clip. Any suggestions?

 

[liketom]

do an undo to get rif of the bad edit there ,

make sure you have only selcted the clip from 50 sec onwards and not all of the clip

put the line over 50 secs on the timeline panel then try again