The crop tool

Hey, I have not been using Final Cut Express long and have not had to crop a picture yet. Now I am trying to figure out how to use the crop tool. Probably real simple lol could someone just point me in the right direction please?
Thanks

Well it will not happen automagically ... actually it rather sounds like cropping is in fact not what you want to do at all, you just need to resize and reframe:
If you want your cropped image to fill the canvas then you will have to adjust the Scale parameter in the instances Motion Tab to resize appropriately (and use the Center parameter to reframe) ... or you can click and drag on a corner of an image's wireframe in the Canvas window to resize it, and click and drag directly within the wireframe to reframe it.
Cheers
Andy

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