iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Help Menu

iMovie doesn’t come with a manual—if it did, you wouldn’t need this book. Instead, you’re expected to learn its functions from the online help.

iMovie HD Help

Choose this command to open the Macintosh Help window, where you’ll see a list of iMovie help topics (Figure A-4).

You can use this Help program in either of two ways:

Figure A-4. The Help Center’s first screen offers big-ticket links like What’s New and Solving Problems. Most people, however, start by typing a phrase into the search blank and then clicking Search (top).Middle: You get a list of Help pages that the Mac thinks might contain the information you want. The Relevance graph indicates how confident the Help program is. (A help page with a longer bar contains more occurrences of your search phrase relative to the rest of the text on it.)Double-click a topic to read the corresponding help page (bottom). Click the Back button at the top of the screen to return to the list of topics.

• Keep clicking colored links, burrowing closer and closer to the help topic you want. You can backtrack by clicking the left arrow button at the top of the window, exactly as in a Web browser.

• Type a search phrase into the top window, such as importing pictures, and then click Search (or press Return), as shown in Figure A-4.

Either way, you’ll probably find that the iMovie online help offers a helpful summary of the program’s functions, ...