Using iMovie media

iMovie for macOS has great creative scope, and that means that we can’t cover all the tools you can use to add meaning in one chapter. Some of the creative tools available to you, such as using overlays, will be discussed in the next chapter. But for most of the rest of this chapter, we’ll be going over the resources and tools that iMovie explicitly provides to you. First of all, we’re going to check out the resources contained in the tabs above the Media Browser.

Using the Audio & Video tab

The Media Browser is split into five different tabs. The default view in the Media Browser is your Project Media or any Event you have selected. The shortcut to return to the My Media tab is ⌘ + 1. But for the rest of the tabs, they provide resources to you, which you can add to the timeline and edit as you please. Pressing ⌘ + 2 takes you to the Audio & Video menu, which currently is still only really for iMovie’s stock...