Imovie clip cuts not actually being cut?

Using iMovie I'm trying to take one 30min clip and use only a 4min chunk out of the middle of it. I've cut the parts I don't need out and my project looks how I want and when I hit play from begining it plays the clip how it should be. But when I hit play in fullscreen movie it plays the whole clip as if unedited! In the project viewer it shows the 4min clip part I want and nothing else. Ive highlighted that clip and hit finalize and then post to youtube. Then youtube tells me clip is too long cant upload. It shows the blank movie as being 30mins long. How is this happening!?

Ah, then your in the wrong forum.
This is iMovie iOS (iPads, iPhones e.t.c).
I'll try to get this moved to the correct forum.

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