iMovie Tutorial: Fine Tuning Project Clips

Video Transcript

"IMovie is a registered trademark of Apple. I am in no way affiliated with Apple. In this clip I'm going to show you how to fine tune a clip once it's already in your project. Now we have this clip down here of the boats wake. It's a little bit too long. We can see if we look over here to the far left it's 10 seconds long. I want that to be almost half that length if not shorter. So what we want to do is click on it, we get our yellow selection box. We want to drag the beginning clip forward to a point where I'm happy with it. Now if you want to change the end point and you really want to fine tune it frame by frame you can put your cursor over the end point. Hold down the shift key and using your arrow keys in your keyboard you can move the end point one frame at a time. I'm going to back it up a few frames. Once you're happy with the adjustment you can go up to pull down menu under edit and hit trim to selection. You can also hit command D on your keyboard. Let's do that. You can see now that the clip is much shorter. It appears in our project window with the adjustment intact. And it's 3.9 seconds. Let's take a look at that. It's much nicer with that 10 seconds gone."