Apple iMovie HD - Manual (Page 40)

40 Chapter 5 Editing Basics
To play through a clip frame by frame:
1 Select the clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer.
2 Press the Right and Left Arrow keys on your keyboard to move forward or back one
frame.
You can also hold down the Shift key as you press the arrow keys to move forward or
back 10 frames at time.
To play through the entire sequence of clips in the clip viewer:
1 Choose Edit > Select None.
2 Move the playhead to the beginning of the movie.
3 Click Play.
Removing Unwanted Video
After importing your video, you can select clips in the Clips pane and delete any you
don’t want. Click an unwanted clip to select it and press the Delete key or drag it to the
iMovie HD Trash. The clip remains available in the Trash until you empty it or drag it
back out.
To create a polished movie, you also trim and crop individual clips so that they show
only the footage you want to include.
There are three ways to get rid of unwanted frames in a video clip:
• Trimming: Removes the frames you select. Use this when you want to delete frames
from one end or another.
• Cropping: Preserves the selected part of a clip and removes the frames before and
after your selection. Use this when you want to keep most of the clip, but you want
to delete the beginning and the end.
• Splitting: Breaks a scene into two separate clips. Use this when you want to separate
a clip into two pieces. You can then delete one of the pieces or use it elsewhere in
your movie.
Depending on how you like to work, you can review and make rough cuts to clips in
the Clips pane, or do all your editing in the clip viewer or timeline viewer. Fine
adjustments to the timing and duration of clips are usually made in the timeline viewer,
where you can also use a method of editing called “direct trimming.”