Summary
In this chapter, we looked at some of iMovie’s most common problems, whether importing clips, editing in the timeline, or exporting a video file. Common troubleshooting tips such as quitting and restarting, copying clips to a new project, and transcoding footage before use should be applied liberally to avoid or quickly remedy any issue that crops up in iMovie. Hopefully, this chapter has armed you with tools to deal with iMovie problems and helped you understand that things will always go wrong when editing. It’s never just you.
And that brings us to the end of this book about iMovie. Believe me, there’s still more to discover, more to try, and more to achieve. But that’s up to you now as an editor. Don’t let people tell you iMovie isn’t good enough – it’s your skill, creativity, and flexibility that make iMovie a match for paid or industry-standard NLEs, and ultimately what helps you edit like a pro.
