
Or, double-click a clip in the Event Browser and, in the Clip Inspector, click the Analyze Entire Clip button. You can analyze the clips during import to get it out of the way this could take three to four times the length of the clips themselves, so it’s good to start and then go do something else. The software examines every frame of a clip and determines the best way to zoom and crop it so when it’s played back, the image isn’t shaky.

Perhaps the most time-consuming feature in iMovie ’09 is image stabilization. If you have a jelly effect after stabilization which can make it look like it's actually worse than it is, you need to adjust the rolling shutter effect to either increase or decrease it. You can also choose to optimize video during the import process, although that increases the initial time spent adding the video to iMovie’s library.Ģ. Christopher, iMovie 11 provides an additional feature called a Rolling Shutter fix and your 5DM2 is one that needs it. iMovie converts the files to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec), the program’s preferred editing format.

Choose File->Optimize Video, and then choose either Full-Original Size or Large-960×540.

Although iMovie can play those files, it has to work harder to fill in gaps that are removed as part of the camera’s compression process. If you shoot with a Flip camcorder or other camera that saves video as MPEG-4 files, you can improve iMovie’s playback performance by converting the clips.
