Edit Video Clips
Clips often contain more footage than you want to use in your movie. You can preview a clip and select just the best part of it.
To display and preview a clip
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Trim or crop selected clips
Many clips are longer than necessary and should be trimmed or cropped.
Trimming and cropping video clips in iMovie is non-destructive. See page 144. |
- Trim:
Remove selected video frames at the beginning or end of a clip. - Crop:
Remove all frames in a clip other than the selected frames.
To trim a clip
1. | Beneath the Scrubber Bar, locate the "crop markers," two small triangles (circled, right). They become visible on the left side of the Scrubber Bar when your pointer gets close to the Scrubber Bar. Drag the crop markers (shown below) to select the part of a clip that you want to remove. The selected section is highlighted in yellow.![]() |
2. | To remove the yellow highlighted frames, go to the Edit menu and choose "Clear." Or press the Delete key. |
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To crop a clip
1. | Drag the crop markers to select a range of frames in the clip that you want to keep.The selected frames are highlighted in yellow. |
2. | To remove all of the frames that are not yellow highlighted (the ones on either end), go to the Edit menu and choose "Crop." |
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