Adding a video clip

I have a video and I want to add another video clip kind of in the background on top of the original video clip. How can I do that?
Thanks!

Put the video you want on top on V2. In the view popup on the right at the top of the canvas switch to Image+Wireframe. Grab a corner of the image to resize it. Move the image to reposition it. Drag an edge to rotate it. There's more you can do with the crop and distort tools.

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Adding multiple video clips to a project?

This is my first use of imovie 11. I imported about 60 minutes of video from my camcorder. I now have about 100 video clips in the event library. I have no interest at all in editing any of the video clips. I simply want to take the hour of footage and make a dvd.
is there a way to move all the videos in the event library into the project window quickly? moving all 100 video clips individually seems very tedious, and I have many more hours of video to do.

As you have no intention of editing your Event try this;
For this you do not even need to create a Project. I tried this out as an experiment a couple of years ago with HDV footage and it worked.
Having got your footage into the Event you can now close iMovie.
From Finder->iMovie Events open up your required Event Folder. You should now see a folder called "iMovie Movie Cache" In this folder you should see a QuickTime Movie called "Cache- 25 .mov . This represents the footage that you have imported into your Event.
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I am not absolutely certain that you will see Cache-25.mov as this may depend on the source footage, (mine being HDV ) but you will be looking for Cache XX .mov or something very similar.
As this does not depend on creating a Project you save the time on Exporting /Share from the Project.
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daniels
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Hi I hope someone can help me out here. When I'm adding mini video clips, it stops after a point which is no where near even half a dvd let alone a full one, and says 'adobe system memory low', cannot add any more save project.
What gets me is that my PC is has plenty of gb memory on it, do I need to do something in settings so it will take more video clips? Its really frustrating, my husband bought me this as a 40th present 2 years ago and I haven't been able to create a finished dvd properly because what I want to create is stopped by premiere with this system low, save project message, there is no way near the amount of clips I could get onto a dvd. Any ideas please??? Thanks

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what is wrong. It plays as I made it on iMovie

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Yours thinking - Bengt W

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With video, this is easily done with shift+command+S.
I tried selecting the audio track and doing shift+command+S but it doesn't work.
I can't figure out how to do this. Is it possible?

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Hi
This is a No and Yes question.
No You can not add Audio first in any iMovie from iMovie'08 (version 7.0.x) and onwards. You need to use FinalCut Pro X to do this - Where it's rather straight forward.
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