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/5F0F9216680CE20C0DC9203D/5F0F9218680CE20C0DC92044/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.)