Resizing clips while keeping good resolution?

hey folks,
this might be pretty basic but is there a way I to make clips smaller without lessening the quality? I'm trying to layer four clips to have one clip in each corner all playing at once. I tried reducing the scale to 50% and I also tried using the crop tool to resize the clips but both of these attempts made the clips pretty grainy. any suggestions? thanks

Yes, this is easy in iMovie.
First go to iMovie/Preferences and make sure that the Advanced Tools are enabled.
Next, make sure your long track with the audio you want is in the Project.
Now, drag the short other clips or photos to the project and drop them on the frame of video (in the long clip) where you want them to start. When a pop-up menu appears, choose CUTAWAY.
Good Tutorial Here from Ken Stone.

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