How do i speed up a video in iMovie?

I have a video clip in my library in iMovie and am wondering how to speed the entire video up?

Click on the small gear icon (cogwheel) at the start of the clip and select Clip Adjustments from the pop-up menu. In the Inspector that opens, in the Clip tab about halfway down you will see a slider named "Speed". It's best to choose a speed from one of the slider settings, that is, 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, 400% or 800%. Typing in your own custom speeds may cause audio glitches in your exported movie - however, these may not be apparent in preview. This was an issue with iMovie '09 and may still prevail in iMovie '11, but I've not seen any posts about it in the iMovie '11 forum, so it may be safe to use custom settings now. But better to be safe than sorry I guess!
Note that just under the Speed slider there is a Direction check box labelled Reverse. Check (tick) the box to reverse the clip.
John

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Click on the small gear icon (cogwheel) at the start of the clip and select Clip Adjustments from the pop-up menu. In the Inspector that opens, in the Clip tab about halfway down you will see a slider named "Speed". It's best to choose a speed from one of the slider settings, that is, 12.5%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 200%, 400% or 800%. Typing in your own custom speeds may cause audio glitches in your exported movie - however, these may not be apparent in preview. This was an issue with iMovie '09 and may still prevail in iMovie '11, but I've not seen any posts about it in the iMovie '11 forum, so it may be safe to use custom settings now. But better to be safe than sorry I guess!
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Hi Walter,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below will give you some insight as to how iMovie organizes video:
iMovie '11: Organize your video
Organize the Event Library
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iMovie is currently optimizing my video so figured i'd ask this now rather than when i'm editing.
I recorded video of myself getting a haircut and would like to speed the video up and add some music to it; similar to this video i found on youtube.
How can I speed up the film like this and slow it down as done in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OmFShCpXSU

Quite easy to do.
Watch the tutorial here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-timing
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Regards,
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