Conversely, a Trailer is a pre-designed construct, with ready-made titles and effects, and a series of placeholders. A movie gives you complete control over the edit. IMovie offers you two main options: a Movie or a Trailer (a third option, only available from the MenuBar, facilitates the creation of App Previews for developers). The Trailer option asks for you what it needs and will design a short video for you (Image credit: Apple) Interface and editing Hook up a camera, and its clips will appear there too, ready for you to choose those you’d like to use. From there you have access to any hard drive connected to your computer. Select the project you wish to add it to (or create a new one) and click on the Import button (an icon with an arrow pointing down). Importing video or stills is incredibly straightforward. Clicking on one of them takes you into the editing process (more on which later). Projects is where all the projects you’ve created are located.

For instance you wouldn’t want to mix your family shots with the clips you’re using for your office presentation, and having multiple Libraries allows you to keep these two separate. It’s also possible to create multiple Libraries to keep your media even more segregated should you need to.

The iMovie Media Library is further broken down into projects so you can organise your footage accordingly. Look through your available footage in Photos, or any Library you’ve created (Image credit: Apple)

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