Time to start cutting! In iMovie, you’ll see that the program is made up of three main windows: the project library, the viewer and the timeline. Once iMovie imports your videos, you’re ready to edit! Before you click the ‘Import’ button, be sure to have ‘Create new Event’ selected and give your Event a title like “5×5”.

Once you locate the videos, highlight them all. To do this, go to File > Import > Movies… In the window that appears, we can navigate to the folder on our desktop where we saved our videos when we took them off of our camera. This will copy all of your videos onto your computer.Įven though our videos are already on our computer, we still have to bring them into iMovie. Double click on the icon and then drag whichever folder contains your videos onto the desktop.

Once you’ve connected your camera or memory card to the computer, an icon will appear on your desktop.

The first step is importing your videos (also known as getting those crazy little moving images onto your computing machine.) To do this, you can either connect your camera to your computer with a USB cable or you can directly insert the camera’s memory card into your computer provided your computer has a slot for that. It doesn’t have to be, though! In this lesson, we explain some of the most essential elements of iMovie within the framework of creating a 5×5 video, which is one of the simplest ways to kick off your videomaking career. Sitting in front of video editing software for the first time can be pretty intimidating.

How to edit in imovie