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CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW ........................... 97
Movie Window views.............................................................................. 101
Storyboard view ................................................................................... 101
Timeline view ...................................................................................... 102
Text view ............................................................................................. 108
The toolboxes .......................................................................................... 108
The Video toolbox ............................................................................... 110
The Audio toolbox ............................................................................... 112
CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ...................................... 115
Video clip basics ..................................................................................... 116
Adding video clips to your movie ....................................................... 116
Working with multiple capture files .................................................... 117
The project video format ..................................................................... 118
Interface features ................................................................................. 121
Trimming video clips .............................................................................. 123
Trimming on the Timeline using handles ............................................ 123
Clip-trimming tips ............................................................................... 127
Trimming with the Clip properties tool ............................................... 128
Resetting trimmed clips ....................................................................... 130
Splitting and combining clips ................................................................ 131
Advanced Timeline editing .................................................................... 132
Insert editing ........................................................................................ 134
Split editing ......................................................................................... 136
The SmartMovie music video tool ......................................................... 140
CHAPTER 6: MONTAGE
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THEMES AND EDITING . 145
Using themes ........................................................................................... 147
The Themes section of the Album ....................................................... 149
Creating theme clips ............................................................................ 149
Working with theme clips on the Timeline ......................................... 151
Anatomy of a theme ............................................................................ 153
Opening the Theme Editor tool............................................................ 156
Using the Theme Editor tool ................................................................ 157