imovie 10.1 wrapping timeline?

If I want to do a complex video, I will go for other editors. With iMovie, we are actually looking for something simple. And these multiple audio tracks and picture in picture are exceptions for most users.

Disabling this feature was a mistake. And they are not going to do anything about it. Don't really get it...

I'm unable to find a way to "wrap the timeline" as well. I can't believe Apple developers would just remove such a useful feature for users. We're left with a huge amount of empty, wasted gray space at the bottom and doing unnecessary horizontal scrolling that slows down the workflow. Also, I miss the "Swap Project and Event" option as I've always edited with the timeline wrapping in the upper part of the screen. This change happens at a bad time for me as I just got back from a long trip in Italy and have a huge video project to do. I've filed a feedback form complaining about these changes. WHY REMOVE USEFUL FEATURES THAT GIVE USERS FLEXIBILITY?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I totally agree and I am totally unable to find it as well. I am also one of those users who infrequently has to use iMovie but when I do it is under extreme time pressure. So changes like this drive me crazy. But I can't understand why they would remove a feature as useful as this.

Unbelievable that they removed this feature. Why then do they have all the space at the bottom???

Instead of fixing the slow/fast motion feature to work in wapping timeline view they just removed this useful work flow option. One could think they just cater to 14 year olds who want to glue their iPhone clips together with some gismo features before uploading it somewhere. The disappearance of the chapter feature is an other one of those 😟

I often make 45-60 long videos, what a pain to not be able to wrap the timeline.

Please contact Apple with your complaint and perhaps (but probably not) they will change this.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Agree. I'm unable to find this feature, and it's a complete necessity. I followed the link and left feedback and would encourage others to do the same.

Submit feedback to Apple to put it back in. I just did, the more that do it, the sooner it will happen.

Feedback submitted to help recover this vital feature.

If, like me, you use a 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel, you may find this slightly helpful:

Shift+Scrollwheel in the timeline pane will cause the timeline to scroll left and right.

Two fingers left and right on a trackpad will also scroll left and right.

Please contact Apple with your complaint and perhaps (but probably not) they will change this.

I'll contact them, but I'm with you: It probably won't do any good. Apple has gotten so clueless about pulling useful features that I doubt they care whether users want a feature or not.

I don't use iMovie all the time which is why I realized only recently that in version 10.1 Apple had removed the very useful timeline wrapping feature. I guess that because you could not adjust the speed of a clip with the timeline wrapping enabled Apple took the draconian step of just removing the timeline wrapping option altogether.

I don't think this was a great decision.

I hope the wrapping timeline will come back if any other iMovie version is released although I have to say fear this could be the last version of iMovie ever.

If anyone important from Apple happens to read these few words one day, please consider this post a plea to bring back the timeline wrapping feature. It is rarely a good idea to remove features from a program especially a very useful one like this one.

I'm a (very) long time PC user but a relative newcomer to Apple and I simply don't know the answer to this question.

Is it possible to downgrade from 10.1 to 10.0.whatever - (the version I had before)? (And so be able to use my previous version with the wrapping timeline option available?)

Any advice and helpful replies from knowledgeable folk appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

This is unbelievable .. I've used iMovie for 7-8 years now, and it's gotten less user friendly each time. Ridiculous move.

I agree with everything everyone has said about iMovie 10.1. Its so useless, unhelpful and downright clunky. I can't find half the features that I'm used to and it's going to take me ages to relearn it, except I've still got version 9 and will continue to use the old faithful version as long as I can.

Anyway, I've just complained to Apple about this nonsense of being unable to wrap the timeline, but what good that will do I'm not sure.

I've loved the Mac and iMovie for years but if I can't have the software I want then I'm seriously thinking of going back to a PC and using Serif's MoviePlus

I've been using it, as I have no option. I am getting used to the no wrapping.

Hate the interface with Photos. But what can I do 😟

A single timeline is actually the norm for video editors - you need plenty of vertical space if you are more complicated editing such as picture in picture and multiple audio tracks.

Geoff.