Shooting and editing are interwoven, and they work together to make videos.
Connect your camcorder to your Mac with a 4-pin-to-6-pin FireWire cable.
Use the camera/scissors toggle switch to move from controlling a camcorderfor importing or just playingto manipulating shots within iMovie.
When your camcorder is in playback mode, you can control it from inside iMovieplaying, rewinding, and reviewing using the shuttle controls.
When you want to move video from a tape in the camcorder into iMovie, click Import. The resulting clip or clips will end up in the Clip pane.
You need to shoot at least two different angles on any action you are videotaping if you intend to edit it. This material is called coverage.
The two angles should have a special relationship to each otherclose-up/far off, in front/behind, someone looking at something/the object they are looking at.
With even a minimum of coverage, you can use basic editing techniques to build a small story in iMovie.
Command-T chops up bits of raw material in the Clip pane.
Drag clips to the workspace to arrange them in the order you want.
Use the Trim tool to extend or shorten shots in the timeline.
