iMovie
Automatically Enhancing Video & Audio
With the Enhance button in the toolbar, you can improve a clip’s video and audio with a single click.
Important: When you enhance a range in a clip, the adjustment is applied to the entire clip.
Make automatic video and audio enhancements
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip.
2. Click the Enhance button in the toolbar.
The video and audio in the clip are automatically enhanced, and some of the buttons in the adjustments bar (usually the Color Balance and Color Correction buttons) become highlighted, indicating that adjustments have been made in the corresponding categories. If your clip contains audio and would benefit from a volume boost, the Volume button becomes highlighted as well.
Adjust a clip’s colorThere are a number of ways to adjust a clip’s
color in iMovie, from applying a quick automatic color adjustment to
individually adjusting shadows, highlights, brightness, contrast, saturation,
and color temperature.
Important: When you adjust the color of a range, the adjustment is applied to the entire clip.
Make automatic color adjustments
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the color balance controls, click the Color Balance button.
3. Click the Auto button.
The clip’s color values are automatically adjusted, removing any color casts and maximizing contrast. The Color Balance and Auto buttons are both highlighted when you select the clip, to indicate that you’ve applied automatic colour adjustments.
To remove the changes, click the Reset button to the right of the color balance controls.
Match the look of one clip to that of another
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the color balance controls, click the Color Balance button.
3. Click the Match Colour button.
4. Skim a clip in the browser or timeline to find a frame that has the look you want to match.
As you skim, a preview of the match source clip appears on the left side of the viewer, and the pointer turns into an eyedropper.
5. Click the match source clip to take a sample.
The clip on the right side of the viewer changes to match the colour palette of the match source clip.
Fix a discoloured clip
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the color balance controls, click the Color Balance button.
3. Click the White Balance button.
4. In the viewer, find a part of the frame that should appear white or gray, and click.
The color in the clip is automatically corrected, removing any colour cast.
Correct the color of a clip based on skin tones
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the color balance controls, click the Color Balance button.
3. Click the Skin Tone Balance button.
4. In the viewer, find a part of the frame that shows a well-exposed part of someone’s face or skin, and then click.
Skin tones in the clip are automatically corrected, removing any colour cast.
Make manual colour adjustments
1. In the browser or the timeline, select a clip or range.
2. To show the color correction controls, click the Colour Correction button.
The colour correction controls include a multi-slider control, a Saturation slider, and a Colour Temperature slider.
1. Do any of the following:
o Adjust shadows: Drag the black slider in the multi0slider control.
o Adjust brightness: Drag the grey slider in the multi-slider control.
o Adjust contrast: Drag either of the half-moon sliders in the multi-slider control.
o Adjust highlights: Drag the white slider in the multi-slider control.
o Adjust colour saturation: Drag the Saturation slider.
o Adjust colour temperature: Drag the Colour Temperature slider.