Using iMovie ’11

In this chapter, you learn all about iMovie ‘11’s system requirements, its user interface, and rearranging its workspace to suit your needs.

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Becoming Familiar with iMovie ‘11

At its most basic, iMovie is Apple’s consumer-level video editing application. It lets you take video, cut it apart, and assemble it in an order that’s pleasing to you. That’s all a good video editor needs to do: cut and arrange. However, like so many things with Apple, being good isn’t good enough. Being great is the standard, and iMovie excels in its greatness.

That’s because iMovie is much more than just a video editor. iMovie is also a terrific video content management system. By that I mean not only does it allow you to import video to edit, it lets you organize ...