Step 4: Bend Time to Your Will

Smooth-action video runs at around 30 frames per second. But in the case of Uncle Joe and his olives, cranking up the speed can exaggerate the tediousness of a too-long segment. (Don't bother looking for iMovie's turtle-and-rabbit speed-adjust icon - it disappeared in version 6.) To warp time, use the Fast/Slow/Reverse effect. If you're really crafty, isolate one moment with iMovie's crop markers and slow it down to exaggerate the motion, then speed up the rest of the segment.

Here we've used the clip-crop markers to speed up one clip and parts of two others.