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4. Video Chunks: Keywords, People, Favor... > Marking Favorites and Rejects: The T...
Marking Favorites and Rejects: The Two-Step Method
Most people, most of the time, flag a clip, or a piece of one, as a favorite or a reject using this technique:
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In the Event browser, select the video you like (or don’t like).
You can use any of the selection techniques described on Phase 2: Select the Good Bits. That is, you can select an entire clip, multiple clips, or only part of a clip.
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Flag it.
To flag the selection as a Favorite, click the black star button (Figure 4-1) or just press the letter F on your keyboard.
Figure 4-1. Select some video and then click the black star button identified here. iMovie adds a green stripe, which designates a favorite shot.
To flag it as a reject, either click
, press the letter R key, choose Edit?Reject Selection, or press the Delete key.
Tip
You can also choose Edit?Reject Entire Clip (or press Option-Delete) to flag the entire clip as worthless. This saves you a little time, because it means you can select any part of the clip first, rather than highlighting the entire thing.
If you flag something as a Favorite, it sprouts a green line across the top edge (Figure 4-1).
If you mark something as a Reject, it sprouts a red line across the top edge—and promptly disappears from view. (If it doesn’t disappear, you must have changed the pop-up menu [skip ahead to Figure 4-3 to see the menu] to say “Show: All Clips.”)
