Can't crop photos in iMovie 10

Ever since I upgraded to iMovie 10 I cannot crop any photos. I want to adjust the Ken burns effect and also see the black borders of all of my photos in portrait. This happens for existing iMovie that I had been working on and also to a new one started in iMovie 10. What is the problem?

Never mind, I discovered that you now have to crop in the timeline.

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Hey There Pippi10,
I understand you want to crop a video clip, but are not seeing the option to do that. From the image above, it looks like you created a project, but you didn't double click to open the project. With the project open, you would be able to drag the selected clip above into the timeline and crop it.
Below are a few resources for iMovie which will explain this a little more:
iMovie (2013): Create a new movie
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH14687?locale=en_US
iMovie (2013): Add clips
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH14694?locale=en_US
iMovie (2013): Crop a clip
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH14715?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
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