Getting Photos Prepared for iMovie

It is my experience that preparing your photos for an iMovie is the most important and potentially timesaving task in the iMovie process. I prefer to work with the photos in the iPhoto program before I even think about clicking on the iMovie icon.

I would first open an new album in iPhoto and place the photos for your iMovie in that album. Then I would put the photos in the same order that you would want to see them in the iMovie slideshow. At this time I would do any cropping or editing of the photos in iPhoto. Now when you click on iMovie and select the theme, you just need to open the album from the photo icon, hit Select All and drag them into the work space in the upper left hand section of the iMovie screen. It you want to change the order of a few slides after you view it, it can easily be done by selecting the picture and dragging it to the desired place on the timeline.

Easy peesy, lemon squeezie!