iMovie '11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Appendix C. Master Keyboard Shortcut List

As you know, iMovie ’11 was conceived with a single goal in mind: speed, baby, speed. And part of gaining speed is mastering keyboard shortcuts, so you don’t waste time puttering around in the menus. So here it is, by popular, frustrated demand: the master list of every secret (or not-so-secret) keystroke in iMovie ’11. Clip and post it to your monitor (unless, of course, you got this book from the library).

Tip

There are also a million shortcut menus—the contextual menus that appear when you Control-click (or right-click) almost anything on the screen. Most of the time, the commands you find there just duplicate what’s in the menus. Learning the keyboard shortcut is still faster.

Panes, Panels, and Windows

Minimize iMovie	⌘-M
Show/Hide Music and Sound Effects	⌘-1
Show/Hide Photos pane	⌘-2
Show/Hide Titles pane	⌘-3
Show/Hide Transitions pane	⌘-4
Show Hide Maps, Backgrounds, and Animatics pane	⌘-5
Show/Hide Inspector	I
Show/Hide Inspector Video Adjustments tab	V
Show/Hide Inspector Audio Adjustments tab	A
Show/Hide Keywords window	K
Show/Hide Crop/Ken Burns/Rotation window	C
Show/Hide Voiceover window	O
Viewer size small/medium/large	⌘-8, ⌘-9, ⌘-0
iMovie Preferences window	⌘-, (comma key)
Project Properties	⌘-J
Project Theme	Shift-⌘-J

Event Browser and Storyboard

Scroll to top/bottom	Home/End
Scroll up/down	Page Up/Page Down
Show clip time/date	⌘-Y
Project Properties	⌘-J
Project Theme	Shift-⌘-J
iMovie Help	Shift-⌘-?
New project	⌘-N
Delete project	⌘-Delete
Print Event Browser or storyboard