i've been using imove 6.0.3 and just purchased a new 27' imac. I've been trying to use imove 11 and cant stand the timeline layout. is there any way to change it to a "layered" time line? similar to the way grageband works?

Hi

iMovie'08 to 11 are a totally different application with NO relation to iMovie 1 to HD6 at all. It's wrongly named.

The Project window can be set into two lay-outs and You switch by clicking the small blue button top right in this window adjacent to Mark/Chapters

And that's all there is

You can try - FinalCut Pro-X as there is a free demo/try-out and see if You can accept this way.

I use

• iMovie HD6 - or

• FinalCut Pro 6

As they works as I learned to do my movies.

Yours Bengt W

Why not continue using the much better iMovie 6?

You can easily have both on your Mac:

Happily this is easily achieved, but it has to be done backwards.

Delete iMovie 11 (just drag it to the trash). Now install iMovie 6 from the iLife 6 install disks. Update it to iMovie 6.0.3.

Now re-install iMovie 11. This automatically moves iMovie 6 into a folder it creates in your Applications folder called iMovie Previous Version.

Then reinstall iMovie 11.

iMovie 6 works great with iDVD 7.

Klaus1 wrote:

… the much better iMovie 6?

Klaus,

I know your favour of v6, but you should mention:

'better' for DV. Only.

for nowadays AVCHD iMv6 is of little use.-

plus, actual iM11 offers tons of stuff, you have to purchase plugins for or don't even get it at all for v6, such as green-screen, score-board-theme, white-balance …

iM11 works great with iDVD7

and iMv6 is meanwhile 6y obsolete ..........

😉

and iMv6 is meanwhile 6y obsolete ..

Nothing that works that well should ever be described as obsolete!

The question here is: will iMovie 6 work with ML, not 'what do we think about it'! 😉

There are two timeline views. See this link for the options.

http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66aa9

A couple of tricks.

1) When you are doing rough edits, keep the Thumbnail Slider at 5 seconds or so. When you are doing fine edits, or want to see the audio waveforms in more detail, set the Thumbnail Slider at 1/2 second.

http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ae8bc9d

2) In the iMovie Preferences, set Display Time as HH:MM:SS:Frames so you can edit to the frame level. Otherwise, you can only edit to the 10ths of seconds.

3) For a good overview of audio editing, see this video for iMovie 08.

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#audioclips

4) iMovie 11 added some significant improvements in audio editing. See this link and click on "All new audio editing".

http://www.apple.com/ilife/video-showcase/