[CUBE] iMovie question

[a l a n t h o m p s o n]

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 06:33 PM, a l a n t h o m p s o n wrote:

> Hey, so I'm editing some video, and adding my own music by importing 
> mp3s from my collection.  Everything is going swimmingly, except that 
> when I edit the sound clip to cut a large portion out of it, there is 
> still a rather large section of the sound clip that is left behind, 
> albeit a different color, and without sound (as expected).
>
> The problem is that when I go to add another mp3 clip just after, or 
> shortly after the end of the first clip, it becomes very difficult to 
> see what's going on due to the left over, edited portion of the first 
> clip.
>
> I know that I can move one of the audio clips up to a different level, 
> but after the second clip this may no do the trick.  I recall that in 
> iMovie 2, the behavior was different - when cutting a portion of an 
> audio clip, it sized the clip down in length, leaving nothing behind.
>
> Is there any way of changing this behavior?

apparently there is - use "crop" instead of "cut" and all is well.

gah, answered my own question (was just a little apprehensive about 
messing up my movie :)

--alan