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Audio editing
  adjust audio levels within a clip
    Clicking a button in the Project browser
    audio waveform below the clip
    drag to select
    drag the audio level (the Volume bar)
    automatically applies a fade to the section ends to avoid abrupt volume changes
  Easy fades
    When you position the mouse pointer over a clip’s audio waveform, fade handles can be dragged left or right to adjust the fade
  Additional audio enhancement
    equalizer, a slider for reducing background noise, and 20 audio effects
    Multi-Tune effect (Apple’s name for the auto-tune effect overused in a lot of pop music) is amusing but offers no fine control
    limited to one audio effect per clip
Movie trailers
  Fun and easy to make
  Helps teach the concept of a storyboard
  Choose File -> Convert to Project to access the editable project
    duplicate first if you want to save the original trailer project
  if you’re planning an upcoming video shoot, create a new Movie Trailer project, click the Shot List tab, and build a list of scenes you need using the animatic placeholders found in the Maps, Backgrounds, and Animatics panel. Then, print the shot list (or save it as a PDF that you can take on location on an iPad, iPod, or laptop).
Bring back the timeline
  Single Row View button in top window
  swap the Project browser and Event browser
One-Step Effects
  shortcuts for making edits
  select a portion of the clip and choose Clip -> Fade to -> Black and White
  automated, but after applying an effect, you can edit its components
  Clip menu now allows access to common actions like speeding up or slowing down a clip. Don't have to open inspector.
  non-destructive. You can undo effects
Other new effects
  blue screen in addition to green
  Side by Side effect
People Finder
  Need to analyze your clips
    File-->Analyze Video…
    Faces and Stabelization (pans)
  Face detection vs. Recognition
  identifies number of people, close or wide, etc, but not who.
Other Footage tags
  auto adds tags to identify clips
  people, pans (left or right)
Photo improvements
  add a still photo that’s oriented vertically, iMovie automatically crops it to fit the project’s horizontal aspect ratio
    Click the new Allow Black button in the Viewer to include the entire photo (with black bars on the edges).
  click a thumbnail in the Photo browser now displays the full image in the main viewer so you can see it better
  photos added to the project get a green checkmark in the photo browser so you know what you've already imported.
Rolling shutter correction
  a wavy effect in footage shot with CMOS sensor cameras
  "Apply rolling shutter correction for clips that have been analyzed" option.
New themes
  News
  Sports
    Sports Team Editor
    Database of player names, positions, sports, and photos that can be called up to display stats on each person
    Data can be entered or imported from a CSV file
Easy import
  Dropbox folder at ~/Movies/iMovie Events
  when you launch iMovie, you’ll be asked if you want to import any new videos added to that folder.
Change All Title or Transition Styles
  Dropping a new style onto the title or transition section of a clip changes the style and then asks if you’d like to replace just the one title or all titles in the project.
Video engine unchanged
  Video shot as interlaced (such as 1080i, where the camera records every other horizontal line in every frame) can display combing artifact
Still no direct AVCHD support
  Converts footage to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec)
  AVHDC is a highly compressed format and direct editing requires reconstruction of the frames on the fly which is an intense process. AVHDC is really designed for direct playback not editing.
  still will only save RAW AVHDC to disk for archive and import later
  iMovie ’11 does now support video shot at 24p (24 progressive frames per second) without converting the rate
Exporting
  Vimeo and Facebook export in addition to Mobile Me and YouTube
  CNN iReporter
  1080p export option