Skip to Content
iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
book

iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue
May 2006
Beginner
512 pages
16h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Markers Menu

Most of these commands have to do with bookmarks, the little markers in your Movie Track that let you jump among important spots in your movie without any scrolling or hunting. Bookmarks are described in detail in Section 5.8.1.

  • Add Bookmark creates a little green diamond marker in your Movie Track at the position of the Playhead. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-B.

  • Delete Bookmark deletes whatever bookmark you’ve just clicked. Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-B.

  • Delete All Bookmarks does just what it says.

  • Previous Bookmark/Next Bookmark make your Playhead jump backward or forward to the next closest bookmark you’ve already created. Not nearly as useful as their keyboard equivalents, ⌘-[ and ⌘-].

  • Add Chapter Marker creates a different sort of marker: a tiny yellow diamond that denotes the beginning of a scene or chapter, as it will appear on a DVD’s mainmenu screen once you export your movie to iDVD. You can place chapter markers only at the very beginnings of clips.

    Remember that you can type names for your chapter markers—and access a second way to add and delete them—by clicking the iDVD button beneath the effects and sounds panel. See Section 15.4 for more on chapter markers. Keyboard shortcut: Shift-⌘-M.

  • Delete Chapter Marker deletes whatever chapter marker you’ve clicked in the Movie Track. Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-M.

  • Show Podcast URLS. in Section 13.2.1, you can read about the little clickable Web links that iMovie lets you superimpose on your video. You create them ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mavericks Edition

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mavericks Edition

David Pogue
Real World Digital Video, Second Edition

Real World Digital Video, Second Edition

Pete Shaner, Gerald Everett Jones
The Human Factor in AI-Based Decision-Making

The Human Factor in AI-Based Decision-Making

Philip Meissner, Christoph Keding

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596527268Catalog PageErrata