clip
Video, audio, or a photo that has been imported into iMovie. Clips appear in the browser and the timeline.
![Clip selected in timeline](https://help.apple.com/assets/5E866224094622F8353B16A9/5E866323094622C6353B16C8/en_US/4619d8c7fda5a3db638bff3f70d84e42.png)
Clips in iMovie link to source media files on your Mac or a storage device. When you modify a clip, you are not modifying the media file, just the clip’s information in iMovie. (This is known as nondestructive editing.)