Cropping songs in IMovie

How do you crop out some of a song in I movie? I read the 05 book about doing it in I tunes, but when I imported the song, the whole song went in. Can you crop from the time line in I movie?

Hi cynthia,
sure you cann...
select audio track/song
place playhea where you wnat to edit
press Apple-T - that splits the song in two parts...
select the part you want to get rid off
click delete
done...
.....read the manuals, use the help menu, do tutorials, have a look here... ;-))

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