Cropping the physical frame of the clip?

Hey. So, I recently got iMovie 08, only to realise that it didn't have half the features of HD 6. So I swapped the software (having to edit everything again, grr).
Thing is, now I discover that 08 has a feature that I can't find anywhere on HD 6, and really need: cropping the frame of the clip so that only part can be seen. I can do it on photos, but can't find a way to do it in movie clips. And when I type in "crop" into help, the only crop I find is the cutting-of-clips type.
Is there a way? Please say yes, I really don't know what I'm going to do otherwise.
~HKJ

Hi HKJ - welcome to the forum!
Have a look here:
http://www.stupendous-software.com/
These are plug-ins for iMovie. iMovie does not have this feature built in. I think you can also crop in QuickTime Pro, but have never done this myself.

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