Editing Clips in the Timeline in iMovie

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Summary: How to edit clips in the timeline in iMovie; learn more about video editing software in this free instructional video.

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Editing Clips in the Timeline in iMovie

Hey everybody. My name is Matt and I am speaking to you here on behalf of Expert Village. All right and once you get your clips down into the time line you are going want to be able to edit them. If you want to change the order in which they're in you need to come over to your clip the viewer mode. And I showed you this earlier. But you can just click and drag and you can change the order that they are in here. But you?re also going to want to be able to edit the length of your clips. If you come back over to your time line viewer what you can do is hold your cursor over where two clips meet and you?ll notice it changes to a line and it will have an arrow pointing over towards one of the clips depending on the the side of the clip you?re on. What you can do it if you left click the and hold your mouse you can drag the clip over. And you?ll notice that it?s shortening my first clip there. That?s the direction that the cursor was pointing in and that dramatically shortens my clip here. You can do this to any of the clips. If I go and do it the other way you will see its shortening my last clip now and it?s automatically going to slide it over to meet that last clip so that there are no spaces in between. You can also do this the opposite way. Just because you change the length of a clip doesn?t mean that it?s deleted. I?ll go over here and I can drag it back out so you?re not actually deleting a clip. You can come back at any time and get back what you cropped there.