The new “skimming” feature of iMovie ‘08 that allows quick and easy grabbing of video clips from your library to drop into the current movie project is a fantastic feature for speeding up the creation of content, however depending on your mousing skills it can be quite difficult to get the EXACT start and stop points of the clip that you want.

One way of accurately selecting the endpoint of the current clip is to use the cursor keys to move the end of the highlighted section instead of dragging around the mouse. Basically all you need to do is to roughly grab the clip that you are looking for then put down the mouse and simply press and hold the SHIFT key while you move the clip forward and backward by pressing the left and right cursor keys. The selection will extend or contract by one frame for each press of the cursor keys.

If anyone knows how to use the same trick to accurately position the start of the clip I would love to know.

[tags]imovie, ilife, tips[/tags]