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Recording Live Video with iMovie

Bryce
posted this on May 03, 2011 10:20 am

Got a Mac and want to show the world what your working with? Maybe you have the urge to show off how you stroke your cock, fuck your trick, or simply want to show off the new matching sweaters you got for you and your poochie? Whatever your needs, today I'm going to show you how to do that with iMovie!

Step 1: Make sure that you have a working camera for your Mac. Most of the newer iMac, Air, and MacBooks come equipped with a built in iSight camera. If you'd like to double check your Mac simply look at the top of your monitor for a dark circle located in the center. (See Example 1) If you find it, you have a iSight
camera! If your computer doesn't come with a pre-installed iSight camera, don't fret.  You'll simply need to run on down to Apple Store and ask them for a USB (or firewire) camera.

Step 2: Next, open a finder window and look in your applications folder for the iMove application. (See Example 2.) If you have iMovie installed, simply double click the iMovie icon to open the application. If you don't have iMovie installed you can visit Apple.com to pick up a copy of iLife '08 which includes iMovie along with a wealth of other programs to make creating, editing and sharing movies and music a breeze. Once iMovie is loaded you will see a middle menu bar that runs left to right in the middle of the application. On the far left hand side of the bar you will see a button with what looks like little DV Cam. Click the button to bring up the iMovie "Import From" section.

Step 3: Once you have the "Import From" window open you should see whatever is in front of your camera in real time. Don't worry, no one else can see you at this point and you are not recording anything. If you see whatever your camera is looking at then you're good to go. If you do not see your camera feed in the window there are a couple of things you can do. The first thing would be to try selecting another source from the Camera drop down menu at the bottom, left hand side of the Import From window. If you do not see your camera listed in the drop down menu then you'll need to re-read the manual that came with your camera. For those of you who do see your camera feed in the window, simply click the "Capture" button. iMovie will ask you where you would like to save your movie and what you would like to name your movie so you can find it in iMovie. Once you've named your movie SMILE YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA! :) When you are ready to stop the recording just click the done button. Everything that you've recorded has been neatly saved to your harddrive as a .MOV file.

Step 4: So, now that you've recorded your movie I bet you're thinking "how so I share it?". There are 2 things you can do. In the bottom section of iMovie you should see your clip neatly displayed for you to edit. Click the clip you would like to locate with your mouse and Cmd+click to bring up a sub-menu.  From the sub-menu, select "Reveal In Finder". From there is should be as simple as any other file on your Mac. You should be aware that this file is normally a VERY large file because it hasn't been compressed. You can easily make your clip a smaller size by selecting the full movie (cmd+a) and dragging it up, into the center box in iMovie. (The box says "Drag media here to create a new project." inside it.) After you have dragged your clip to project area press command+e to bring up the export menu. From there you can give your movie a name, select where you would like to save your movie, and select several sizes that you can export your movie to. (It will also show you what the size you've selected is best  suited for... Like ipods, iphones, appleTV, .Mac, etc.) Simply give your movie the name you'd like to use, select where you would like to save your movie and the export options that best fit your needs, then hit export.

That's all there is to it! In a few minutes you'll have a hot new video to share with friends, family, or whomever else you wish!