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Chapter 5 Editing Basics 43

To trim a video clip:

1 Select a clip in the Clips pane, clip viewer, or timeline viewer.

2 Position the pointer over the scrubber bar to display the crop markers.

3 Drag the left crop marker until you see the first frame you want to remove displayed in

the iMovie monitor.

4 Drag the right crop marker to the last frame that you want to remove.

The selected frames in the clip appear yellow in the scrubber bar, as shown above.

5 Choose Edit > Clear (or press the Delete key) to trim the selected frames from the clip.

Cropping a Video Clip Using Crop Markers

To crop a clip, you select the frames that you want to keep and delete the rest of the

clip. Cropping is often the easiest method when you want to preserve the middle part

of a clip and delete the beginning and the end.

To crop a clip:

1 Select a clip in the clip viewer or timeline viewer.

2 Position the pointer over the scrubber bar to display the crop markers.

3 Drag the right crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the last frame that you

want to keep.

4 Drag the left crop marker along the scrubber bar until you see the first frame that you

want to keep.

5 Choose Edit > Crop to delete the frames outside the range of frames you selected.

The selected frames are preserved.

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Apple iMovie HD User Manual Page 43