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Touring the iMovie interface

Touring the iMovie interface - iMovie Tutorial

From the course: Screencasting with the Mac

Touring the iMovie interface

And now for a tour of the iMovie '09 interface, iMovie operates in a single window and features four main panes and a toolbar. Starting in the lower left corner, the Event Library is where you access movie clips. These are arranged by Last Import, iPhoto Videos, and events, which are sorted by date. Last Import contains the last videos you imported from your video camera. iPhoto Videos includes any videos stored in your iPhoto Library. Events are videos you've imported, filed by the date you imported them. When you select an item in the Event Library, thumbnail previews of the event appear in the Event Browser to the right of the Event Library. Events in the Event Browser appear in iMovie's Viewer pane. Move the cursor and the portions of the video clip under the cursor change. As you drag the cursor across the video, either forward or back, the video plays at the speed you drag. And audio will play right along with it. I don't happen to have any audio to go with this particular…

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