MacMost Newsletter Issue #590 for April 23, 2020

Enroll In Numbers And iMovie Courses Before the Upcoming Price Change

When I first launched my new courses website last summer, I started with two courses: Numbers and iMovie. Since the site was new, I put these courses at a special $25 price. Since then, I have launched other courses, like Catalina and Pages, at the regular $40 price.

It is time to change the Numbers and iMovie course prices to match. I'll do that next week, on May 1. I wanted to give my newsletter subscribers a warning in case anyone was about to go for one of those two courses. Remember to also use your newsletter discount code, showers to get an additional 20% off (Note: If you are a Club MacMost member, but sure to use this month's Club MacMost code for 50% off). You can read more about the courses and view sample lessons at the MacMost Courses website.

Making Better Videos Using the Precision Editor In iMovie

If you want to get really good at making videos with iMovie, you'll want to learn how to use the precision editor. You can adjust the start and end of clips down to the frame, and also where transitions start and end. You can also adjust audio to make the audio from one clip overlap the video in another.
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Creating Numbered Table Of Contents Chapters In Mac Pages

When you create a table of contents in Pages, it will include page numbers, but not chapter numbers. You can manually add chapter numbers to your chapter headings, but that can lead to a problem if you need to insert a chapter in the middle. If you want to automatically number the chapters, you can do it be adding a Bullets & Lists style to your chapter headings.
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How To Record Your Mac Screen With Computer Audio

When you use macOS Catalina's built-in screen recording you'll get audio only from the microphone. If you want to record the audio coming out of the system and apps, you'll need to install a third-party extension. One company provides an extension for free that you can use with their software or just with macOS QuickTime screen recording.
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How To Use A Hanging Indent In Pages On a Mac

It is easy to set a paragraph to use a hanging indent if you know one trick. But you can go much further with different techniques such as using rulers, creating reusable style, using specific text in bullet lists, or inserting text boxes. You can also set your footnaotes and endnotes to use hanging indents which is needed for many report styles.
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Creating a Cinematic Black Bar Opening Effect in iMovie

There is no transition in iMovie that lets you reveal video behind two horizontal black bars like you sometimes see in films. But you can easily build a black bar opening effect using a simple Keynote animation as an overlay.
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Quick Tip: Customize Reminders List Icons

You don't have to settle for the default icon and a random color for each Reminders list in Catalina. Control+click on a list in the left sidebar and choose Get Info. Then you can click on the icon to choose a new color and graphic.

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