Trimming an audio track in iMovie Hd

Please help me on this one. How do you trimmed an audio track on iMovie Hd? The track is about 3 minutes and a half and I want to delete about the last 30 seconds of the track. How can I do that? Please respond as soon as possible. Thanks

Hi Greg:
I am assuming you are talking about a seperate audio track in your iMovie and not audio in the actual original video tape...
Simply click on the piece of audio you want to change to highlight it blue.
Then place your Playhead at the spot where you want to split it so that you can trim off the last 30 second.
Use Edit-->Split at Playhead
Then click on the new little piece at the end that you want to get rid of and highlight it.
Then, either hit 'delete' or extract audio.
Then SAVE the project.
That will do it.
Comr back if i have confused you.

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