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In iTunes, click iTunes Store in the sidebar.

Scroll down the store’s front page to the Movies section and click See All.

Find the movie you want to rent and click its thumbnail.

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Tip: Seek and Ye Shall Find

If you have a particular movie in mind, you can enter its name in the iTunes search field while you’re in the store and search for it. Choose the movie you have in mind from the list of search results and proceed with step 4.

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Note: To Rent or To Buy?

For many video offerings in the iTunes store, you have a choice of renting or buying. Rentals expire 24 hours after you start watching them, but content you buy sticks around forever. Be sure to back up your iTunes library periodically by choosing File, Library, Back Up to Disc, so that you never have to worry about losing your purchased content.

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Click Rent Movie.

Enter your Apple ID and password and click Rent.

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Note: All This and More

The iTunes Store offers for rental and purchase not just movies but also TV shows. You can even sign up for a season pass and have each episode of your favorite show delivered automatically.

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Tip: Taking It on the Road

To transfer your rental to your iPad, iPhone, or other device to watch it, first connect the device to your Mac; then choose your device (below Devices in the sidebar) and click the Movies or TV Shows tab. Choose the video you rented and click Move.

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Importing Video Footage into iMovie

With iMovie, your home movies will reach new heights. You can add titles and credits, special effects, music and sound effects, and more. Then you can save your finished creations as small QuickTime files for emailing, high-quality DVD movies, or anything in between. The first step is to bring video from your video camera into iMovie.

In iMovie, choose File, New Project.

Give the new movie project a name, choose a theme, and click Create.

Choose File, Import from Camera.

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Note: Trouble in iMovie Paradise

Can’t seem to get the camera to respond to iMovie’s controls? Check to make sure the camera is in playback mode (VTR or VCR mode) rather than recording mode.

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Note: Space Is Cheap

If you find you’re running out of disk space when you import video, consider buying an external hard drive just to store video files on. You can get quite a bit of space for well under $100.

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Click Play to view a clip before importing; click Previous and Next to move from clip to clip.

Choose a size for your video clip and click OK.

Choose a location to save the imported video and click Import.

Click OK.

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Tip: Picky Picky

If you don’t want to import all the video currently saved on your camera, click Manual in the Import window and check only the clips you want to import.

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Inserting Transitions

After you’ve assembled your movie’s raw footage by dragging clips from the Clip Shelf into the Clip Viewer, you can spice up the production by adding transitions between clips.

To see the available transitions, click the Transitions button.

Hold the cursor over a transition to see how it looks in action.

Drag the transition to the Clip Viewer and drop it into the point in the movie where you want it.

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Note: Creative Transitioning

Unfortunately, iMovie restricts you to using one transition between each pair of clips. But don’t forget that you can also use transitions before and after titles, photos, and other elements.

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To change settings for your transitions, choose File, Project Properties.

Drag the Transition Duration slider to determine how long each transition takes.

Click OK.

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Note: Transition Timing

Be sure to pay attention to the duration of your transitions as you preview your movie. What seemed like a perfectly reasonable amount of time when you put in the transition can stretch to an awfully long time when you’re watching.

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Saving a Movie