Chapter 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 .