From the course: iMovie 10.1.16 Essential Training

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Adjust the speed of clips

Adjust the speed of clips

- iMovie gives you multiple options for increasing or decreasing the speed at which clips play back, which can be useful when you need to slow down in especially quick or brief clip to show detail, or to speed up a longer clip to make time pass faster. Adjusting the speed of clips can also produce both dramatic or comedic effects depending on the clips you apply them to. Start by selecting the clip in your timeline that you want to speed up or slow down. For this example, I'm going to look in the event browser, I'm going to find this long shot here of me running through the woods and I'll select the entire clip and I'll just add that to the end of my project. I'm only using it for this example so it doesn't really matter that I'm placing it after those credits we previously put in there. So let's watch it once in real time. (feet stomping) All right, so not a particularly interesting shot. So let's play with the speed a…

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