203 Sharing a Movie chapter 11 WORKING WITH iMOVIE ’09 99 How can I have more control when exporting my project? You can choose the Export Using QuickTime option and have precise control over the format and compression settings. 1 Click Share and then Export Using QuickTime. The Save Exported File As dialog opens. 2 Select a file format. 3 Click Options to open the Movie Settings. Note: The settings available depend on the file format. This example shows settings for a QuickTime movie. 4 Click Settings to adjust video compression and other video settings. 5 Click Settings to adjust audio compression and other audio settings. ● iMovie publishes the movie. It may take minutes or hours to publish a project depending on the size of the movie and the speed of your Internet connection. After the movie is published, iMovie displays a confirmation dialog. ● Click Tell a Friend to invite others to view the movie. ● Click View to view the movie on the Web at your MobileMe account. 9 Click OK to close the dialog. 55 44 33 22 204 33 66 55 77 11 44 22 y y ou ou t ube ube y ou ou t ube ube y ou ou t ube ube 4 Select your YouTube account. ● The first time you publish, click Add to add your account to the menu. 5 Type your password. 6 Select a category. 7 Type a title and description. 1 Open the project that you want to publish. 2 Click Share. 3 Click YouTube. Publish a Movie to YouTube You can publish your movie to YouTube, the popular video-hosting site. Once your movie is published to YouTube, you can send the YouTube Web address to friends and family. You can also make the movie publicly available to other YouTube viewers. To use this feature, you must have a YouTube account. Visit www.youtube.com to sign up. Publish a Movie to YouTube 205 Sharing a Movie chapter 11 WORKING WITH iMOVIE ’09 88 99 00 How do I publish my project to a DVD? You can click Share and then iDVD to turn your project into a movie and then open it in the iDVD program. You can then publish the movie on a DVD with or without other movies. For more about iDVD, see Part VI of this book. How do I publish my project to iTunes? You can click Share and then iTunes to save your project as a movie in iTunes. This allows you to view the movie on iPods, iPhones, and other devices that connect to iTunes. You can also watch the movie on your computer through iTunes. iMovie displays the terms of service. 0 Click Publish to accept the terms and upload the movie. iMovie uploads the movie to YouTube. After the movie has been uploaded and processed, it is made available on the YouTube Web site. ● You can add tags, or descriptive keywords, to further categorize your movie. 8 Select a size to upload ( changes to ). Selecting Medium results in better quality but a longer upload time. ● You can click to make the movie publicly accessible on YouTube ( changes to ). 9 Click Next. part I VV part I VV part V V V V part p a r t part I I I V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V part I I III VVVVV Working with GarageBand ’09 This part teaches you about GarageBand ’09, which lets you compose music on your Mac. The program lets you work with prerecorded loops or music that you record from real or software-based instruments. You can save your completed songs to iTunes, burn them to a music CD, or post them online in a blog or as podcasts. You can also get professional music instruction using the program’s Learn to Play feature. I I II VVVV Chapter 12: Editing and Mixing Music 208 Chapter 13: Recording Music 236 Chapter 14: Sharing Music 256 Chapter 15: Learning to Play Music 270 208 Timeline The timeline is where you arrange music loops and recordings to create your GarageBand project. Each row in the timeline represents a track where you can place a different instrument. When you play a project, a vertical line called a playhead shows the progress along the timeline. Tracks GarageBand displays the types of instruments in your project as tracks. There are three types of tracks in GarageBand: real instrument tracks made up of instrument recordings or prerecorded loops of instruments, software instrument tracks where music is defined programmatically, and electric guitar tracks that can be modified using various guitar-specific settings. Regions When you add a segment of audio to your project, GarageBand creates a region in the timeline. You can arrange and rearrange the regions on the timeline to suit your tastes. Regions are colored differently depending on the type of music: Real instrument loops are blue, recorded real instruments are purple, software instruments are green, and imported audio files are orange. See “Add a Loop to the Timeline” for more details. Track Info Double-clicking a track opens a track info panel. Here you can make changes to the instrument that corresponds to the track. For example, you can add predefined special effects that change an instrument’s sound. See “Add an Effect” for details. Track Editor The track editor gives you a low-level view of your project. Music is represented either as a waveform, for audio created from real instruments, or discrete notes, in the case of software instruments. In the editor you can change the pitch of a track to shift all the notes in a track or edit notes one at a time. See “Adjust the Pitch” or “Edit Musical Notes” for details. Play Controls You can preview your project to hear how the loops and recordings that you have assembled sound. See “Play a Project” for more information. GarageBand lets you assemble songs from prerecorded audio loops and music that you record yourself. You can adjust the volume and stereo placement of each instrument, also known as mixing a song, add special effects, edit individual notes, and more. Before starting a GarageBand project, familiarize yourself with the program workspace. Understanding the GarageBand Workspace GARAGEBAND GARAGEBANDGARAGEBAND 209 chapter 12 Editing and Mixing Music WORKING WITH GARAGEBAND ’09 LCD The LCD, or liquid crystal display, lets you monitor a song as it plays. It shows you the progress of the song in terms of time or musical measures. You can also display tuning, chord, tempo, and other basic information in the LCD. Volume Controls Volume sliders enable you to control the loudness of the music in your project. Besides controlling the overall volume, you can control the loudness of individual instruments in tracks. See “Change the Volume” for more details. 210 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 Songwriting Songwriting DOC DOC If The Modem Ain’t Dialing, Baby, You’ll Know It’s Me I‘ll Buy You Tomorrow, But Let’s Demo Tonight Keyboard Keyboard EPS EPS NEW NEW PROJECT PROJECT NEW PROJECT Voice Voice TIFF TIFF Electric Guitar Electric Guitar PNG PNG Piano Piano Piano Piano 1 Click File and then New. The GarageBand window appears. This window also appears when you first start GarageBand. 2 Click New Project. 3 Click a project template. 4 Click Choose. Create a New Project You can start assembling music in GarageBand by creating a new project. You select a project template based on the type of audio you want to work with. You can work with GarageBand’s predefined loops, work with a specific type of instrument, write a song for multiple instruments, or create a podcast. Create a New Project The New Project from Template window appears. 5 Type a name for your project. 6 Select where to save the project. ● You can click to save your project in other locations on your computer. ● You can optionally adjust the tempo, signature, and key settings for your project. See the tip for details. 7 Click Create. 211 WORKING WITH GARAGEBAND ’09 Editing and Mixing Music chapter 12 88 99 What are the tempo, time signature, and key settings? These settings determine the timing and other fundamental aspects of your project. You can adjust them when you create a new project. ● The tempo is the rate at which beats occur. The tempo is measured in beats per minute (bpm). You can set the tempo for a project to between 60 and 240 bpm. ● The time signature, such as 4/4 or 6/8, determines the relationship between beats and measures. Measures are the divided sections in the project timeline. The first number is the number of beats in each measure and the second number the length of the note that gets one beat. ● The key defines the central note of a project. You can set the key to any note between A and G sharp (G#). Along with the key, you can choose to use either the major or minor scale. GarageBand creates a new project. ● You arrange the different loops and recordings that make up your song in the timeline. Tracks enable you to separately control the instruments in a song. ● In this example, a piano template was used, so GarageBand inserts a single piano track. ● You can click and drag loops from the loop browser to the timeline to add predefined music to your project. Note: See “Browse for and Preview Loops” for details. 8 Click File. 9 Click Save. GarageBand saves the project. 212 11 55 66 77 88 22 33 44 COINS COINS COINS Shaker Piano Elec Piano Organ Synths Brass Rock/Blues Urban World LOOPS Bass Guitars Strings All Drums Kits Beats Percussion ABCDEFGH I J 12345678 9 10 BROWSE IN BUTTON VIEW 1 Click to display the loop browser. 2 Click to show musical button view. 3 Click a button to display loops in a category. ● GarageBand displays the loops in the category. 4 Click another button. GarageBand filters the loops by the second category. ● You can click Reset to reset the buttons. BROWSE IN COLUMN VIEW 5 Click to show column view. 6 Click a category. GarageBand displays a set of subcategories. 7 Click a subcategory. GarageBand displays a list of keywords. 8 Click a keyword. ● GarageBand displays the loops. Browse for and Preview Loops GarageBand comes with hundreds of predefined music snippets, or loops, that you can combine to create a song. You can view the loops based on instrument, musical style, and more in the loop browser. Browse for and Preview Loops . Tonight Keyboard Keyboard EPS EPS NEW NEW PROJECT PROJECT NEW PROJECT Voice Voice TIFF TIFF Electric Guitar Electric Guitar PNG PNG Piano Piano Piano Piano 1 Click File and then New. The GarageBand window appears. This window also appears when you first start GarageBand. 2 Click New Project. 3 Click a project. GarageBand’s predefined loops, work with a specific type of instrument, write a song for multiple instruments, or create a podcast. Create a New Project The New Project from Template window appears. 5. first time you publish, click Add to add your account to the menu. 5 Type your password. 6 Select a category. 7 Type a title and description. 1 Open the project that you want to publish. 2 Click