1. Switching iMovie into Edit mode
2. Making your video clips/pictures part of your filmstrip.
3. Arranging your video clips/pictures in your filmstrip.
4. Removing video clips/pictures already in your filmstrip.
5. Playing your entire filmstrip.
6. Playing an individual clip.
7. Playing you filmstrip from a certain point.
8. Cutting unwanted time or footage out of a video clip/picture.

Switching iMovie into "Edit" mode.

• If you have just finished importing your video, iMovie will most likely be in camera mode. You need to switch it into edit mode like the slider pictured below. The camera represents the import mode. The scissors represent edit mode.

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• You should now be able to see your video clips or imported files in the "clips" option window or see your pictures in the photos window (if not see importing your footage).

• To make these video clips/pictures (I will call both of these "clips" from this point forward) part of your filmstrip you need to simply drag them individually from the clips options window into the filmstrip window. Click and hold on the clip and drag it down into the filmstrip and release the mouse.

• You can put as many clips as you wish into the filmstrip. Any clips left in the "clips" option window will not be part of the filmstrip but will be saved in case you may want them later.

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• You can move your clips around to arrange them in any order you like. Click and hold on the clip you wish to move. Move it where you want it and the other clips should move out of its way. Release the mouse to place the clip there.

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• If you have clips in your filmstrip that you do not want you can remove them using two different methods.

• This is the suggested method. Instead of deleting the clip you will remove it from your filmstrip but save it in case you change your mind later. Click on "clips" tob bring up that options window/frame. Drag the clip from your film strip up into the "clips" option window. Now your clip is not part of the filmstrip but if you ever want it you can get it back.

• The second way is to delete the clip. Do this only if you are sure you will not change your mind in the future. Click on the clip you wish to delete. It will become highlighted in blue. Use the "Delete" button on your keyboard to delete it. Notice that there is a difference between the "delete" button and the "del" button. You want to use the "Delete" button.

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• If you wish to view your entire filmstrip click on this special rewind button. It will move you to the beginning of your filmstrip and deselect all the clips (this is so all of them will play not just a highlighted or selected one)

• Now either play your filmstrip in full screen or in the monitor window.

• Click this play button to play it in full screen

• Click this play button to play it in the monitor window.

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• Select the clip you wish to play by clicking on it. Once it is selected it will turn blue.

• Click either the full screen play button or the normal play button.

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• First you need to make sure that none of the individual clips are selected (highlighted in blue). To deselect clips either click in a "dead area" such as this gray area with no buttons. You can also click the special rewind button which if you remember rewinds to the beginning of your filmstrip and deselects all clips

• You can now click the blue triangle. This triangle is called your "playhead". The blue bar that the play head is in represents your filmstrip or highlighted clip. You can drag it to any part of your film and then press play. Notice that as you move this playhead the video in the monitor window adjusts and there is a red line in the filmstrip that indicates where you are in the filmstrip.

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• Select the clip you wish to edit. The playhead and the blue bar is now a representation of that selected clip.

• Move the playhead to where you want to make the cut. In the example below I do not want any of the footage after the dog steps off the bricks. So I moved the playhead to that spot. You can use the arrow keys to move frame by frame and be very exact.

• To cut this clip here go to the menu bar and choose "Edit" and then "Split Video Clip at Playhead".

• It will make two clips, one before the playhead and one after it.

• Since I don't want the last part of the footage (when the dog is off of the brick). I select it and remove it (see removing clips).

• If you wanted to cut footage from the middle of the film you would have to make two cuts. One before the area you want to remove and one after. Then you can remove the middle clip.

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