If you've been wanting to get printed versions of our Take Control books about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you need wait no longer. Each of the books' Web pages in our Web catalog now has a Buy Print Book button on the left side, and anyone who has already purchased an ebook version can now click the Print link at the top of the PDF's first page to order a discounted print copy. We recommend purchasing the print version from within the ebook so you'll get both the ebook - with its Check for Updates link - and the print version for the same price as a directly purchased print copy.
Thoughtful, detailed coverage of the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, plus the best-selling Take Control ebooks.
- Upgrade to and Learn Lion with New Take Control Ebooks
- Our Favorite Hidden Features in Mac OS X Lion
- Lion Security: Building on the iOS Foundation
- Subtle Irritations in Lion
- Finding a Replacement for Quicken
- Lion Is a Quitter
- Dealing with Lion's Hidden Library
- Lion Application Compatibility Wiki
- Rosetta and Lion: Get Over It?
- Preparing for Lion: Find Your PowerPC Applications
TidBITS Watchlist
- Piezo 1.1.2
- Firmware Updates for iMac, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air
- Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.4
- ChronoSync 4.3 and ChronoAgent 1.3
- Audio Hijack Pro 2.10.1
- Sandvox 2.5
- Security Update 2012-001 v1.1 (Snow Leopard)
- Firefox 10.0
- Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
- Firmware Updates for Mac mini, MacBook, and 13-inch MacBook Pro
iMovie '09: Speed Clips up to 2,000%
iMovie '09 brings back the capability to speed up or slow down clips, which went missing in iMovie '08. Select a clip and bring up the Clip Inspector by double-clicking the clip, clicking the Inspector button on the toolbar, or pressing the I key. Just as with its last appearance in iMovie HD 6, you can move a slider to make the video play back slower or faster (indicated by a turtle or hare icon).
You can also enter a value into the text field to the right of the slider, and this is where things get interesting. You're not limited to the tick mark values on the slider, so you can set the speed to be 118% of normal if you want. The field below that tells you the clip's changed duration.
But you can also exceed the boundaries of the speed slider. Enter any number between 5% and 2000%, then click Done.
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Jeff Carlson
Published in TidBITS 904.
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