Subtitles of the Movie

Before we begin editing our video clips, let's take another look at the shelf. The shelf contains all of the clips that we've captured. The scroll bar here allows us to access the clips which is stored lower down and out of sight. The trash can contains all of the unwanted footage that we've deleted during the editing process. The megabyte number here tells us how much hard disk space this represents. Each video clip is represented by an icon, which looks a little like a 35 mm slide. The information here at the top of the slide shows the length of the clip and here along the bottom, the name of the clip. At the moment, it's a number. If you'd like to rename this clip, double click on the slide and the information box will appear. This tells you the clip's name, the type of media it is, and the size in megabytes. Now, if you are going to change the name, I'd advise you to include the number as part of the name. All of these clips will be stored in the projects media folder. However, the clip's new name will not be saved and if you need to access it in the future, you will have lost the link between the name and the number. This will make it very difficult to find the clip in the media folder. When you select a clip for editing, the border changes from white to yellow. This is an important feature in iMovie if it's yellow that's the clip you are working on. Once you selected a clip, it first appears in the monitor window. Some of the buttons below this window now have different functions. The first is the fast reversed button. This second button is the home key. Use this when you are editing from the video track or the timeline and It'll move you back to the first frame of either the clip or the whole movie. Use this large button to start and stop the playing of your clips. This button is called the full screen button. Clicking here, will switch your preview to expand to the full computer screen. If you have a reasonably fast processor and have allocated enough memory to iMovie. The results of full screen are surprisingly good. Of course, if you have an external monitor, you won't need this button and finally, we have the fast forward play button. You can also drag the play head backwards and forwards across the scroll bar. This will give you a very fast preview of your clip. As you get more experienced with iMovie, you'll use this method most often.