Trimming/Cropping?

The iMovie Getting Started- booklet devotes 1.5 pages for explaining:
- how to trim a video clip;
- how to crop a video clip.
I do not get the difference, do you?
Also, the booklet suggests that the unwanted part should be in yellow. I think it should be blue. Whatever, why the unwanted part is not in red and the wanted part in green?

I do not get the difference, do you?
yepp
do as discribed (I do have for sure the German version here, so read yourself...) in the Help Turtorial, to be found in the Library/Documentation
basicly:
trimming - switch to timeline mode; place cursor at end or beginning of clip; cursor changes into some arrow-symbol... moving the cursor, makes clip shorter (from beginning/ending..)
cropping - use the two arrow symbols under the big preview window.. select in/out point (selection is yellow); hit Apple-K - clip is now cropped, ready to be placed into timeline..
you do cropping BEFORE adding a clip into timeline, you do trimming WHILE a clip is in timeline...
cropping is more "final", e.g. to get rid of shakeyshakes while pointing to scenery, to get rid of unwanted portions of recording, etc.
trimming is an excellent method to adjust very precise, to make a seemless, "unnoticable", "flowing edit" to the following clip...
in edit-school, Lesson#1: outside, person opens door/cut/inside, person walks thru door.. you need to trim both recordings to match the "flow", otherwise person "stutters" thru door or "jumps" thru door ...
both, "different" methods are usual in pro-edit-tools as FinalCut ...
... why the unwanted part is not in red and the wanted part in green? ...
taste of programmer? ... ;-))

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