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/5FA5CDAF680CE22B77639816/5FA5CDB0680CE22B7763981D/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.)