iMovie Tutorial: Fine Tune a Selection

Video Transcript

"IMovie is a registered Trademark of Apple. I'm in no way affiliated with Apple. Alright, in this clip we're going to talk about fine tuning our selection. And so we have, from our last clip we have our selection. And we see the yellow box that shows us which of the video we selected. And we talked about, how we can move this box. By going up to, anywhere into the top of the box. And moving it back and forth. Where we're at. Now if you want to move this box, one frame at a time. You can do that, as well. By just using your right and left arrow keys on your key board. So I'm going to move this, one frame forward. And you can see the boxes moving one frame forward. And using my back arrow, we can go back. Now this moves the entire selection. So your in point is changing, as well as your end point. Sometimes, you just want to fine tune one of the points. I'll show you how to do that, now. Before I do that,. let's play this selection. O.k. If we right mouse click, anywhere in it. We can go down to play selection. So just what's in the yellow box, we'll play. O.k. Let's hit space bar to stop that. And you notice at the beginning, we'll do that again. Notice at the beginning, how there's a little bit of video before the vows and rings actually begin. You just really don't want in here. It's a little bit of a flash. So we're going to fine tune that beginning point. Let's hit space bar to stop. Now let's go up into the clip here. You can see at the beginning of the clip. There's that video we don't want. And if we can, we just move our mouse slow. Where we can move it one frame at a time. And you can see, if we go back. There's a video we don't want. One frame ahead, that's what we want. One frame back, we don't want that. One frame forward, that's where we want to start. So since that's where we want to start. It's inside our cursors, inside the yellow box. We just have to hit, just select shift on your key board. And click your mouse. And you can see, the yellow box jumps, at the beginning here. Right to that frame. So let's right mouse click and hit play selection, again. And you'll see, now it starts really nice. that little flash is not there. Hit the space bar to stop. Similarly, you can do that to the end. If we want this. Maybe if that was a little bit too farther. Camera's getting a little shaky there. You can move on of those back. One frame at a time. We like that frame as a good ending point. Hold down, shift. Click your mouse. And the box will go right to that point. So that's a way to fine tune your selection and also how to play just your selection."