Digital Commons at Penn State

iMovie 09 allows you to change the speed or direction that a clip plays. The following tutorial will help you find and change the speed of a particular clip.

Once you have some footage in your timeline you are ready to change the speed of that footage. To do so simply hover your mouse over the footage and you will see a "Gear wheel" appear over that specific clip, click this "Gear Wheel" and choose the option "Clip Adjustments."

Once "Clip Adjustments" has been selected you will see an "inspector window" pop up on screen.

From here you can manipulate the speed of a clip by dragging the speed bar, moving left slows down your clip and moving right speeds it up. To the left of the bar you can see the percentage of speed for that clip and the exact duration of that clip in seconds. There is also a button to reverse the clip and play it backwards.

Once you have the speed you would like simply click "Done" to apply it to your clip.