Rearranging clips in i movie

Is there any way of arranging your clips automatically so the go back in order after you have shuffleed them around?
Dan

I can't view your .mp4 videos, but the "Julius Crashing" plays OK. (..My son shot something similar in South Africa ..another fellow with a hover-mower on his back..)
"Editing"? ..What editing? ..It's just jump-cuts ..and the final edit cuts off the sound of the hover-mower too: one moment it's buzzing full pelt, then the video cuts to a different shot, and there's just sweet meadow silence. Is that really "editing".
Maybe what you want to ask is "How do I blend one shot into another without sudden jerks in picture and sound, which might be off-putting to people watching?"
So when he's hit the ground, halfway through the movie, I'd use a suitable "transition" to change to the shot of people surrounding him. There's not much of a selection which comes with the 'bare' iMovie HD (..I've got a selection which I've bought and downloaded from Slick/GeeThree..) so I'd suggest that the simplest and least draw-attention-to-itself-ish is a simple ..and quick, because we're watching action here.. Cross Dissolve.
Then for the next cut (..where the man with the trousers gets in the way of the camera..) another, slightly slower, Cross Dissolve.
Then, in place of the final straight cut, 'Extract' the audio from that next-to-last shot of the pilot undoing his helmet, so that you can slowly fade that audio down (..quite separately from any cut or video transition..) and then use another Cross Dissolve to the people around him.
A slowish audio fade lets the audience 'calm down' after the fright of the crash, and lets our heartbeat slow down for the final standing 'static' shot.
Sorry I can't comment on the others ..ahh: just Saved the linked file for number three, changed its suffix to be just .mp4 and now I can view it:
I like the shot from the moving vehicle, with the hover-mower flying behind (..wouldn't it have been nice to put a camera ON the hover-mower, so that you had some shots from the air?..) but all your cutting is still just straight cuts. The thing which provides some continuity between the shots, to 'smoo-oo-ooth' the transition between them, or to paste them together, is someone else's music (..and they don't get any credit.)
Like Dan's shots of helicopters, the sky's perfectly exposed, but the flyers are dark; too dark to see their faces. You really needed to have pointed the camera at a flyer, zoomed in, then set the camcorder's manual exposure to that setting, so then ..even if the sky came out a bit bleached.. you'd be able to see the people, their kites, the machines, etc, properly. Never just leave the exposure on "automatic" when you're going to have lots of sky in the picture! ..Everything else will come out too dark!
If you look for and download some other transitions, you could do with a "spin around" or "360-degree Twirl" or some such, which would go with those shots of flyers, especially with that kind of insistent music: spin one shot into another from time to time!
Or you could do a similar thing with a very fast "Twirl" that comes with iMovie. Then select all three clips: the part before the Twirl, the applied Twirl transition, and the part after the Twirl, choose File and Export, choose QuickTime and 'Full Quality' and tick the box 'Share selected clips only' and give that chunk a new name, such as "Twirl".
Then use File and Import, and import that same "Twirl" (..it'll have the suffix .dv..) back into iMovie. Then, back in the Timeline, delete the original Twirl transition which you applied between the two clips, and drag the two original clips to the Clips Pane on the side. Drag into the Timeline, in their place, the newly-imported "Twirl" sequence, which includes the transition.
You can now cut that sequence - complete with the Twirl transition - in the middle, after the 1st part has Twirled out to black. [..You couldn't cut the original transition; you can only cut it after it's been "baked" into a solid piece along with its intro and outro halves ..hence the Exporting and reimporting..]
Having cut it, Save everything. Now chop equal amounts off the end of the first half - as the picture's twirling away into the distance - and off the start of the second half - where it's twirling In from the distance. Drag those offcuts to the Clips Pane.
Now apply a short Cross Dissolve between those two remaining halves. That superimposes some of the Twirl OUT onto the Twirl IN, making a snappier transition between the clips, and in keeping with the feeling, or theme, of people whizzing about in the sky at mad angles.
[..I haven't watched the first one, as it's time to go out now (..to TollWood, if Karsten's lurking!)..]

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I strongly recommend "that guy's" books. He seems to know what he's talking about.
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