Then you can see under Modify you've got Trim Clip Edge. So click on the edge right here and you can see it is selected like that. So to do that you want to select the edge. Now if you want some precision you can use the keyboard to move the edge of a clip frame by frame. I end up with the same result here and just like with the other ones I can expand it back later on. If I move the playhead over towards the end it is going to be smart enough to trim from the end instead of from the beginning since the majority of the film is to the left. So I move the playhead right here and then I go to Modify, Trim to Playhead or use Option and Slash, which kind of makes sense as you are slashing the film, Option Slash and it is going to take off at the beginning. So going with the whole physical metaphor of actually cutting some film it doesn't actually apply here because it is so easy to add that film back at the end and at the beginning as well.Īnother command you can use is Trim to Playhead. I can still grab the edge here, click and drag it out and I can get more of the video. But you can do it with this method as well which may surprise you. With the other method you can trim the clip and then adjust the trimming later on. So this method is a little more versatile. Now this is a little more useful because not only can I use this to trim the clip but if I want to put something in here like some sort of title or video I can do that here as well. I can break the clip right there, I can break it somewhere else and then I can select these sections here and Delete. So I can move the selection right here to the exact point I want and then I go to Modify, Split Clip or Command B (I remember that just by thinking as B as in break). Once I've got that I can simply go to Modify and Trim Selection right here and I get the beginning and end trimmed off.Īnother thing you can do is you can split the clip where you want and do it in two places to get this extra in the middle. Once I drag I can still alter it a little bit by moving the handles here. I can look at the preview at the upper right, see exactly where I want to select, and start dragging. That is because at the bottom part I can select where I want. If I click outside to de-select it notice that as I move my cursor here you can see at the bottom part of the video I get a different type of cursor than at the top part. Now another way we can do it is by only selecting a portion of this. We can add things before or after and we only get that middle part of the clip. So we can drag it to wherever we want it to start and where we want it to end. The first method is we can simply drag the edges of this movie over. ![]() ![]() Now let's look at all the different ways we can do this. We don't have everything at the beginning and at the end. Let's say we want to cut out a portion here so we just have this portion in the middle. ![]() So I will grab this and drag it into the project here. Then I'm going to just drop a simple clip in there. This is a difficult question to answer because there are so many different ways to do it. I often get asked how do you trim video using iMovie. On today's episode let's look at all the different ways you can trim video in iMovie. Check out 8 Ways To Trim Video In iMovie at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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