Images appear in reverse on iMovie '08 video screen.

How do I reverse the video images appearing on the iMovie preview screen?
When using my iSight camera to import video directly into iMovie '08, objects appear in reverse. i.e. When I wave my right hand in front of the camera, it appears on the left side of the screen.
When I'm not using iMovie, the images appear correctly on the iSight Screen.

Nope: optical illusion!
When you use your iSight camera with, for example, iChat or PhotoBooth, the images are reversed, so that you look the same to yourself as you do when you look in a mirror.
"..When I wave my right hand in front of the camera, it appears on the left side of the screen.." ..yes; that's how you look to other people in everyday life! ..When you look in a mirror and wave your right hand ..look carefully: your mirror image is waving his left hand!
When you look at your image as shot by your iSight, you'll see that if you shot yourself waving your right hand then it really is your right hand which is waving at you in iMovie!
The Apple people purposely switched the image in iChat AV (..and maybe other iSight applications..) so that you would look - to yourself - as you do when you look in a mirror, because that image looks familiar to you. (The image which is shown on someone else's screen when you're using iChat AV, however, shows you the correct way round, and not as reversed and seen in a mirror.)
So you're seeing yourself the correct way round in iMovie .,as everyone else sees you ..a bit unnerving at first!

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