The "feel" of iMovie compared to FCP

Apologies in advance if this seems like a dumb question...
I am very comfortable with Final Cut Pro, and have it, but not a version that works with my current hardware...maybe later there will be money for upgrading.
I'm in a situation of needing to cut up some video using iMovie, and my question concerns getting comfortable with the iMovie way of doing things...wondering if those who know both iMovie and Final Cut can lend some advice about how to get productive with iMovie...
what's snarking me about iMovie are its tendancy, perhaps, to want to "help" me...I move the cursor over a clip and it plays and I find it disorienting. Maybe I need to look at that differently.
I also find it tedious/difficult to select the bits of clip I want.
Maybe hours in the chair will do it, but I'd appreciate any...not sure what to call it..frame of mind, or mental reference that you use to get familiar with iMovie's various ways.
thanks for reading and for any help!
ray

I can see how it would be useful....maybe I just need to get used to it. but as I move over the clips, there it is, ready to skim for me. maybe it's just a change in user behavior that I need to adopt.
the other thing is selecting clips from the "main" clip to put into my little bin. in FCP, I'm used to making a cut here, a cut there, then plucking out what I want, deleting what I don't want.
that yellow selection frame while mostly good, needs to either stay put, or I need a better idea of how to use it?
ray

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Thanks, X, that info does help me understand the transcode file size. But on the other side of my question, can I borrow my iMovie's import file to FCP? Coz both of iMovie and FCP use AIC as intermediate file format for editing, are they?
The reason I want get this done is that I am using iMovie for the family vedio editing with many of great footages I could use in my business projects. I am just feeling lazy and to save hard drive space if I could have FCP reuse iMovie's AIC imported file, rather then log and transfer those AIC footages already imported by iMovie. Of course, if all of these under the assumption of iMovie's AIC = FCP's AIC and could be resued are correct.
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I'm sure some variation of this question has been posted a bajillion times but I can't seem to find the answer. At this point I feel like a damsel in distress. Rescue me?
I've been working with iMovie for about two years now and I've recently been learning Final Cut Pro to up the ante on my videos. However, when I tried to import an iMovie project into FCP yesterday, it didn't quite work. Let me explain what I did and what happened:
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Welcome to the family. I don't think many of us have ever used iMovie so your post might be more quickly answered in that forum.
My suggestion is to forget trying to move the project. Rebuild it in FCP. The exercise will teach you much more about your new software than fighting XML.
If you don't feel like doing that, try a smaller iMovie project, something with only two or three clips and one dissolve.
The larger issue is probably how iMovie stores its captured media which is completely different from how FCP does it. And the format is different. FCP does not, IIRC, view iMovie's default dvstream codec. You will want to export your movie clips as DV.
bogiesan
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nevermind. i figured it out.

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