Editing using the toolbar
It’s time to move from the Media Browser sections of iMovie to the Toolbar, a set of useful functions that sit above the Viewer. You’ve already seen some guest entrants to the toolbar, which appear as the leftmost option when you have certain clips selected. Title customization shows a T symbol; map customization shows a globe, and if you choose a background with customizable colors, a picture icon appears for changing the colors. Finally, for extra toolbar options, Overlay Settings appears as an extra option when you click on connected videos and photos. We’ll look at that in detail in Chapter 6; for now, we’ll be exploring the standard tools in the toolbar, from left to right.
Color balance
The first menu on the toolbar holds the Color balance tools. Color is a stage of the editing process that usually takes place right before the final video is checked for approval and exported. It’s a creative process as much as...
