Appendix C. Master Keyboard Shortcut List
As you know, iMovie ’09 was conceived with a single goal in mind: speed, baby, speed. And part of gaining speed is mastering keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t waste time puttering around in the menus. So here it is, by popular, frustrated demand: The master list of every secret (or not so secret) keystroke in iMovie ’09. Clip and post to your monitor (unless, of course, you got this book from the library).
Note
There are also a million shortcut menus—the contextual menus that appear when you Control-click (or right-click) almost anything on the screen. Most of the time, the commands you find there just duplicate what’s in the menus. Learning the keyboard shortcut is still faster.
Panes, Panels, and Windows
Minimize iMovie |
⌘-M |
Show/Hide Music and Sound Effects |
⌘-1 |
Show/Hide Photos pane |
⌘-2 |
Show/Hide Titles pane |
⌘-3 |
Show/Hide Transitions pane |
⌘-4 |
Show Hide Maps and Backgrounds pane |
⌘-5 |
Show/Hide Inspector |
I |
Show/Hide Inspector Video Adjustments tab |
V |
Show/Hide Inspector Audio Adjustments tab |
A |
Show/Hide Keywords window |
K |
Show/Hide Crop/Ken Burns/Rotation window |
C |
Show/Hide Voiceover window |
O |
Viewer size small/medium/large |
⌘-8, ⌘-9, ⌘-0 |
iMovie Preferences window |
⌘-, (comma key) |
Project Properties |
⌘-J |
Event Browser and Storyboard
Scroll to top/bottom |
Home/End |
Scroll up/down |
Page Up/Page Down |
Show clip time/date |
⌘-Y |
Project Properties |
⌘-J |
iMovie Help |
Shift-⌘-? |
New Project |
⌘-N |
Delete project |
⌘-Delete |
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