You can extend iMovie's features by installing plug-ins. Apple and third parties have created plug-ins for iMovie.
How to install additional plug-ins:
1. Quit iMovie, if it is open.
2. Click the Finder in the Dock.
3. Choose Go to Folder from the Go menu.
4. Type "~/Library" and click Go.
5. If you don't see a folder named "iMovie" choose New Folder from the File menu, and name it "iMovie".
6. Open the iMovie folder.
7. If you don't see a folder named "Plug-ins" choose New Folder from the File menu and name it "Plug-ins".
The resulting path should look something like this:
- Macintosh HD/Users/Your User Name/Library/iMovie/Plug-ins/
9. Open iMovie.
The iMovie Plug-in pack 2.1.1 for Mac OS X is available from the iMovie Web site (http://www.apple.com/imovie/).
Free iMovie Plugins:
Apple iMovie Plugin Pack:
2.1 - Download
- This iMovie Plugin Pack 2.1 includes the following new effects, transitions, and titles
Jerry's Free iMovie Plugins:
1.3 - Download
- Color Mangler (color controls) UPDATED FOR 1.3!
- * Eric The Plugin (4:3 to and from 16:9) UPDATED FOR 1.3!
- * Funky Monkey (solarization)
- * Monkey Brewster (lithograph and posterization)
- * Rhesus Pieces (pixelizing, anonymizer)
- * Sleepy Time (dream mist)
- * The Matrix (matrix convolutions)
- * Ye Olde TV (scanlines, etc)
- Auto Saturation (over, negative and automatic saturation)
- * Blueprint (blueprints and other related color mistakes)
- * Color Slide (move R,G,B around independantly of eachother)
- * False Color (turns the image into a color-cycling image)
- * HV Hold (adjust horiz,vert hold and position)
BKMS Free iMovie Plugins:
- Download
- This pack contains a selection of transitions taken from the Melt Through, Melt Away, Pixelate, and Soft Wipes sets, download the free BKMS iMovie plug-in samples.
Slick Free iMovie Plugins:
- Download
- Slick Sampler includes 9 fully functional plug-ins for iMovie
- ( works with iMovie 4, 3 and 2).