After you’ve imported your clips, you can arrange them for your movie. To include a clip in the movie, drag it from the Clips pane to the timeline at the bottom of the window. How you order your clips will help tell your story.

When you play your movie, the clips will appear as you arranged them in the timeline. If you don’t like how your movie looks, simply rearrange the clips in the timeline. Remember, the order in which you filmed your video doesn’t have to be the order in which you present your movie.

Steps

Arrange your iMovie clips to tell your story

1. Select a clip with which you want to begin your movie, and drag it to the clip viewer.
2. Repeat this process with the other clips you want to include.
3. Notice that when you drag a clip to the clip viewer, it becomes selected. You can tell a clip is selected because its background turns blue.
4. Click Play to play the selected clip in the clip viewer.
5. Click the blank area to the right of your clips to deselect them.
6. Click the Rewind button and play your entire movie sequence so far.
7. You can rearrange your clips simply by dragging them around in the clip viewer. Select a clip and move it to another location.
8. Select a clip from the clip viewer and drag it back to the Clips pane.
9. Go to the File menu and choose Save to save your iMovie project.