If you choose a theme, iMovie automatically inserts cross-dissolve transitions and transitions based on the theme between clips, as well as a theme-styled introductory title over the first clip in your project, and a theme-styled credits title over the last clip. To include titles and transitions styled after Apple-designed themes in your project, select one of the themes presented below Project Themes. The File menu appears in a light gray bar across the top of your computer screen. In iMovie, choose File > New Project or click the Create Project button (shown below) in the lower-right corner of the Project Library. To learn how to create a trailer, go to this topic instead: Create a trailer. This topic describes how to create a standard movie project. You can have iMovie automatically add these transitions when you create a new project you can always change or delete them later. You can have a clip fade in or out, dissolve into another clip, zoom into another clip, and so on. Each theme comes with its own title styles (titles are text that appears onscreen) and transitions, which play between clips and give your movie a professional touch. IMovie comes with a selection of themes you can use in your movie. To learn how to import video, go to the Import section of iMovie Help. If there is no video in your Event Library, you must first import some video from a camcorder or other recording device, or from another source, such as from a camera archive or an iMovie HD project. Then you add video to the project from your Event Library. To work on a new video project in iMovie, you first create the project by giving it a name and defining other parameters for it, including whether or not your project will have a theme.

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