Chapter 10. Professional Editing Techniques

10. Professional Editing Techniques

The preceding chapters have covered the technical aspects of editing video in iMovie: where to click, what keys to press, and how iMovie's various controls operate . This chapter is about the artistic aspects of video editing: when to cut, what to cut to, and how to create the emotional impact you want.

Put another way, this chapter is a continuation of the film-theory crash course that began in the first three chapters of this book. Chapter 2, for example, describes filmmaking techniques that you must think about at the time you're shooting. This chapter offers some tricks in editing.