6. Editing with iMovie ’09

If you’re a Windows PC user, you’re welcome to skip this chapter. iMovie, part of Apple’s iLife suite, works only with Macs, so you’ll learn nothing helpful here. Windows Movie Maker is every bit as good as iMovie—better, probably—so just move along; nothing to see here. We’ll see you in Chapter 7. Bye!

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Coast clear? Windows users gone? OK, now that it’s just us Mac users, let me assure you that I was lying through my teeth when I said Windows Movie Maker is a better movie editing application than iMovie. In fact, iMovie kicks Movie Maker’s patoot from here to eternity in terms of functionality and features. At the risk of sounding like an Apple fanboy, if you master iMovie, I guarantee ...

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