Section A.6. Advanced Menu


A.6. Advanced Menu

This menu is a mishmash of miscellaneous iMovie features. For example:

  • Extract Audio splits the audio from a highlighted video clip into an independent audio clip in the Timeline Viewer, as described on page 239. Keyboard shortcut: -J.

  • Paste Over at Playhead performs a video overlay. It pastes your most recently cut or copied video on top of (replacing) whatever video is now at the Playhead. (Contrast with the Paste command, which shoves existing footage off to the right.) Depending on your settings in Preferences, a Paste Over preserves the original audio, so that the video appears to cut away while the narration or soundtrack continues uninterrupted. Keyboard shortcut: Shift- -V.


    Tip: If you highlighted some footage before opening the Advanced menu, this command fills the highlighted stretch of time with whatever you've got on your Clipboard.
  • Lock Audio Clip at Playhead adds pushpins to the highlighted audio clip in the Timeline Viewer, as described on page 231, so that if the accompanying video clip shifts during editing, the audio moment will shift too, staying in sync with the moved video frame to which it was attached. Keyboard shortcut: -L.

  • Revert Clip to Original. As long as you haven't emptied the Project Trash, this command offers you the luxury of restoring a highlighted clip to its original condition, the way it was when first imported from the camcorder, no matter how much you've sliced or diced it in the meantime. See page 125.



iMovie HD & iDVD 5. The Missing Manual
iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596100337
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 209
Authors: David Pogue

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