You are correct -- that paragraph is seriously wrong . That's what I get for changing my example at the last minute. I've edited the paragraph now with your corrected text, thanks!

-rob.

iMovie doesn't capture the frames you don't need; it just captures them at the interval you specify. But yes, using a high-quality still camera and something like evoCam, you can make some very nice time-lapse clips.

Before iMovie 6 came out, we had a large yard project done, and I did just that -- stuck the camera upstairs in the window, and snapped a pic every 15 seconds, all day, for weeks at a time. The end result was quite cool

-rob.

I was just able to add a still with a 0:00:01 duration, so it looks like it has.

-rob.

Sorry, that was my bad sentence construction -- should have said "... or evoCam," as evoCam has more still-frame capturing options (full control over the text overlay, for example).

-rob.

What about the opposite? I've not used iMovie for this yet, but can movements which are fast real time be slowed down just easily? For example, a tennis serve to slow-mo?

iMovie has a slow down effect, and with a bit of trickery, you can slow a clip down multiple times. However, if you only started with a 30fps camera, you won't be able to "see" any more in slow-mo -- a ball moving faster than 100mph, for instance, will still be a blur in slow mo mode. But the video will move more slowly.

-rob.