IMovie
iMovie is a media (video, audio and still images) editing program for Macintosh OS X. It is also included with the iLife suite. With iMovie you may import video from external sources, such as DV recorders, edit video, add sound, such as background music, add transitions and titles, export clips for use on the Internet, , and also prepare a movie to be burned to DVD using iDVD. iMovie works together with iDVD, iTunes, and iPhoto to allow users to have very comprehensive media editing options. For more information on iMovie see the article.
When using a computer in an academic lab, you must be aware of specific things when saving your project. The file will be too large to save on your home directory, but you will be able to save it to the local machine's hard drive. This way, if you work on the same machine later, the file will still be there. If you move to a different machine, you will be unable to access the file.
When a project is created in iMovie, it is automatically saved in a folder on the local hard drive. It will appear that they are stored in the "movies" folder under your personal user account, but actually, they are stored under the "iMovie Events" folder under the local computer's hard drive.
When you are finished working on your project, you will then want to export it, so that it can be shared and viewed as a final project on other computers. To do this, go to the "Share" menu at the top of the screen, and click on Media Browser. Here, you may choose the size of file you would like to export. This file with then be saved in your personal "Movies" folder that is in your user account. Within this folder, there is one called "iMovie Projects" and in here you will find your project that you created.
If you have properly exported your video with the media browser, you will be able to find this file by right-clicking on your project and selecting "Show Package Contents." Click on the "movies" folder in here, and you will find your exported video. Also, you can find this exported file on any machine, as long as you are logged in as yourself since it is saving in your own 鶹Ƶ account.