Subtitles of the Movie

iMovie offers three ways to remove unwanted video material deleting, cropping, and splitting. First, let's look at deleting. If you have used the automatic capture feature, you're short of import in many clips, which you will not need. Select each clip one by one and preview it quickly. If you do not need a clip, just hit the delete key. Note the MB number next to the trash can has now increased. Next, cropping. You will use this method to remove any unwanted video from the beginning or the end of a clip. Drag the play head to the right until you see the exact frame you want the new clip to start at. In future, we'll call this the end point. In this case, it's the first appearance of the blue fish. Move the selection arrow, down the play head to just below the scrub bar. Press the shift key and the mouse button at the same time. A pair of white direction handles appear here. Drag the right handle to the right until you reach the point, where you want the clip to end. This is called the out point. Notice a yellow strip has now replaced a portion of the blue scrub bar. In this area denotes the edited clip. The length of the new clip is shown here just to the right of the play head. You can now drag the play head back and forth across this yellow strip to rapidly preview your edit. To complete the crop, go to the edit menu and select crop. You can also use a keyboard shortcut here by clicking on the apple key and the letter K. You can now play this new clip by pressing the space bar. If you are unhappy with the edit and would like to try again, go to the edit menu and select undo crop or press the Apple key and the letter Z at the same time. The last method of editing is called splitting. This is used where you have captured a long length of video in one chunk. You need to split it up into a few or many separated clips. Select the clips for editing. Note this is called clip form. Drag the play head to the point where you want the split to occur. Now, go to the edit menu and select split video at the play head or use the keyboard shortcut apple and the letter T. You now see, we have a potential problem. Because the viewable shelf area is full of clips, iMovie has moved the split clip to the bottom of the shelf and it's become separated from the original. This could become very confusing later on especially if you have lots of clips on the shelf. To avoid this problem, first move the clip you wish to edit to the video track. When you split it here, the two parts will remain side by side. You can now edit each part quite easily and you can also rename them if you wish. Notice, although the clip number is the same, a slash one has been added to the second clip. If more than one clip is highlighted in yellow, you will need to deselect them before you can edit either of them. Do this by clicking anywhere outside of the highlighted clips.