View Menu
This menu is short but very sweet:
Switch to Clip Viewer/Timeline viewer change the Movie track from its current view to the other one. The wording of the menu command may change, but the keyboard shortcut (⌘-E) remains the same.
Scroll to Playhead/ Scroll to Selection are ideal for situations when you scrolled off to a different part of the movie to check something out (“Have I already used that hilarious clip of the baby’s spaghetti face?”), and then want to return to the spot where you stopped playback (” Scroll to Playhead”) or to the clip you had selected a moment ago (“Scroll to Selection”). iMovie returns to the designated spot without losing your Playhead position or clip selection. Keyboard shortcuts: Option-⌘-P, Option-⌘-S.
Zoom to Selection zooms the Timeline viewer precisely as much as necessary to fill the window width with whatever batch of clips you’ve selected. It even reveals just a tidbit of the preceding and following unselected clips, to help you gain your bearings. (Note that if you’ve highlighted only, say, a single 3-second clip, this command doesn’t do much; it can’t zoom beyond the limits of the Zoom slider.) Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-Z.
Show Clip Volume Levels reveals the horizontal “rubber bands” that, in the Timeline Viewer, reveal the volume levels of your audio and video clips. (Section 8.1 has more detail.) Keyboard shortcut: Shift-⌘-L.
Show Audio Waveforms makes those lie detector-style “sound waves” appear on your audio clips ...
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