how do you you trim all clips at once in imovie

Hi,

I don't know of any way of globally trimming a group of clips where you are trimming off different duration values for each clip. However, you can change the duration of a batch of clips all at once so that they are all the same duration.

Further, if the clips are all the same duration, say 20 seconds, then you can select them all as a group and change their duration all at one time to, say, 15 seconds, and that would amount to trimming each clip by 5 seconds. Obviously this would not work for a group of clips that have varying durations. It would make them all the same duration, but depending on the original duration of each clip the amount trimmed off would vary.

To work with durations, group select your clips, click on the information button (the one with an "i" in it) on the tool bar at the top of your screen, change the duration in the duration box that appears on the right, and then click return (enter) on your keyboard. That would change the duration of the clips to the same duration.

-- Rich