Apple iMovie '08 - Manual (Page 20)

20 Chapter 2 Learn iMovie
Step 2: Organize Your Video Library and View Your Video
After you’ve imported your video, you’re ready to enjoy it. Your video is categorized
into Events in your Event Library, where it’s available for immediate viewing, browsing,
searching, or embellishing.
About iMovie Events
When you import video into iMovie and give it an Event name, a new Event appears in
the Event Library, listed by the year in which it occurred. Clicking the disclosure triangle
for a year in the Event Library displays all the Events in a single year. If the video of a
single Event spans several days and you elected to separate the days when you
imported the video, the individual days are listed separately.
By choosing the name of an already existing Event when you’re importing new video,
you group video from multiple sources into one Event. You can also merge multiple
Events (or Event days) into one, or split a single Event into two.
By merging and splitting events or moving video clips from one Event to another,
you can organize all your video into meaningful categories and time frames and
browse through them as if you were browsing the titles of books on a bookshelf.
For example, if you imported video from multiple sources that you’d taken during a
vacation to the Galapagos Islands, all your video from all sources could be grouped
together under a single Event, for example, “Galapagos Vacation,” which can easily be
found in the year in which the vacation occurred.
Selecting an Event in the Event Library displays all the video that Event contains.
Selecting multiple Events simultaneously displays the video contained in all of the
selected Events.
To browse multiple Events:
m Hold down the Command (x) key as you click the names of the Events containing
video you want to browse.