Building a Basic Video Track

Open iMovie. If you have not used iMovie before, you will see a dialog box with three buttons: New Project, Open Project, and Quit. In this dialog box, click the New Project button. (If you have previously worked with iMovie, it remembers your last project and automatically opens it for you. In this case, start a new project by choosing File, New Project.)

In the Create New Project dialog box, name your movie. Move to the volume on which you are going to store it and click Create. Unlike many other applications, what you create is not a file but rather a folder that contains all the elements of your project.

NOTE

Make sure that you choose a volume with plenty of free space to store your iMovie project on. If you have ...

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