Appendix D. Visual Cheat Sheet

iMovie, as you’ve probably gathered, is completely different from any program you’ve seen before—including previous versions of iMovie. It’s filled with handy visual cues as to what’s going on. But especially at first, learning all of those cues can become a full-time job.

iMovie is teeming with thin banners over and under your filmstrips (in green, blue, or purple); horizontal colored lines drawn right across them (in red, green, and orange); little white “badges” huddled in the corners of filmstrips; faint little corner badges that appear only when you point to a filmstrip; gigantic green or purple bubbles lying behind your entire project map; and on and on.

You practically need a cheat sheet to remember what they’re all for—and on the next two pages, you’ll find it.

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