Options
Effects menu items:
Rainbow adds seven items to the effects menu: black and white, and six color options. The letters in the names of the color options refer to blue, magenta, red, yellow, green and cyan. All six options use the same colors in the same order, but begin at a different point in the rainbow. Select the one that results in the colors you want to have in your movie.

Controls:

• Band width controls the width of each band of color. For more bands of color, select a narrower band width.
• Edge sharpness controls how gradually the color changes between bands. The change can be completely gradual, or instantaneous.
• Brightness ramp controls how much the brightness level of the original image affects the brightness of the resulting image. At the "full" end, the brightness of each pixel of the output is completely controlled by the brightness of the input pixel. At the "flat" end, all colors are very bright and are not affected by the brightness of the input pixels.

MacOS 9

1. If iMovie is running, quit the program.
2. Find the iMovie folder on your hard drive.
3. If there is a folder named "Resources" in the iMovie folder, open it. Otherwise, there should be another folder named "iMovie" there--open it, and then open the "Resources" folder inside it.
4. Inside that folder, open the "Plug-ins" folder.
5. Inside that folder, open the "Effects" folder.
6. Copy "RainbowMLC.MacOS9" into the "Effects" folder.
7. Restart iMovie.

1. If iMovie is running, quit the program.
2. Open the "Applications" folder on your hard drive.
3. Inside that folder, open the "iMovie for MacOS X" folder.
4. If there is a folder named "Resources" there, open it. Otherwise, there should be a folder named "iMovie" there--open it, and then open the "Resources" folder inside it.
5. Inside that folder, open the "Plugins" folder.
6. Copy "RainbowMLC.MacOSX" to the "Plugins" folder.
7. Restart iMovie.

1. If iMovie is running, quit the program.
2. Open the "Users" folder on your hard drive.
3. Inside that folder, open the folder with your username.
4. Inside your user folder, open the "Library" folder.
5. If there is an "iMovie" folder there, open it. Otherwise, create a new folder named "iMovie". (Be sure to only capitalize the "M").
6. If there is an "Plug-ins" folder there, open it. Otherwise, create a new folder named "Plug-ins". (Be sure to only capitalize the "P" and to include a hyphen).
7. Copy "RainbowMLC.MacOSX" to the "Plug-ins" folder.
8. Restart iMovie.

• iMovie 2.0.1 or higher
• MacOS 9 or MacOS X

iMovie discussion forum

To smooth out little details, blur your images using iMovie's built-in soft focus effect before applying Rainbow. Be sure to click "Commit" after applying soft focus. Otherwise, the blurring will be discarded by iMovie before Rainbow is applied.

If you are shooting video which you intend only to use with Rainbow applied, you could even shoot it out of focus on purpose.

Use subjects with as little fine detail as possible. Note that it is sometimes desirable to have highly detailed backgrounds, but if your main subject has too much detail, it may be difficult to tell what it is. It helps to avoid shooting from too far away from your subject.

Close up shots tend to work very well with Rainbow. Note that the examples shown below were all blurred before Rainbow was applied.