IMovie tutorial or video

imovie

Can you recommend a good site with some online training for the latest iMovie on OS X? I have tried to play with iMovie over the years and I never seem to 'get' how it is meant to be used.

Right now I have about 1.5 hours of raw video taken with my iPhone 5s of a set of student presentation and I (naively) wanted to make a short 'highlight real' of it. But once I import the video into iMovie I am not sure how to use its features.

(Note that I am very proficient on my mac in every other respect, software development, html, photoshop, illustrator, all those I manage just fine, but iMovie is so confusing. I feel like I just need a 20 minute leg up in a tutorial or something like that.)

Update:

Here's a screenshot of what I am using: I have played with it a while and I don't see any commands which would make it look like the screenshot in the help screenshot provided below… what am i missing?????

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Best Answer

If you're looking for a video tutorial, this screencast on YouTube is pretty helpful:

Apple provides a very detailed guide on iMovie, available from Help → iMovie Help or online.

Help Center → iMovie Help