Top Cropped on Video

I have imported a movie from my camera (Sony DCR-HC42). When looking at the thumbnails the movie looks perfect. But, when I play it, the top is cropped off of everything. Any idea why, or how to fix?

OK Here is one more thing to try.
First, Do you have the Advanced Tools available? To do this, click iMovie/Preferences. Then but a checkmark by "Show Advanced Tools". This is at the bottom of the preferences window.
The Advanced Tools should now be showing in the space between the Projects Pane and the Events Pane.
Now you will see the CROP tool. It is the button on the Advanced Tool Bar that is the thirsd from the right. Click it and you can crop your video. Your choices are FIT and CROP. If you choose FIT, it will use you footage to try and fill the screen for your chosen aspect ratio. If you choose CROP, you can move around a box to choose what part of the frame is showing. I recommend playing around with it until you get the results you want.
Good luck.

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