---
id: FLM-1
title: The reel and cutting
group: Your film
summary: The strip, scrubbing, cutting, selecting, deleting, projects and importing clips
keywords: [strip, reel, film, play, pause, scrub, cut, split, scissors, select, delete, trash, full screen, runtime, duplicate, project, import, copy, move, order]
---

Your clips are the film. The strip under the picture shows them, in the order they were filmed.

## Watch your film

Swipe the strip of clips. Tap the first clip, at the left end, to start over.

- **Play and pause:** tap the picture. At the end, a tap plays it again.
- **Scrub:** drag sideways on the picture.
- **Full screen:** pinch out, and pinch in to come back.
- **Back to the camera:** tap the live picture at the end of the strip, or swipe to it.
- **Runtime:** tap the time at the top to see each clip's length under it.

## Cut

Hold the picture, slide to the spot. Tap the piece to drop, then the scissors. While a cut waits, the X at the top right puts it away. Once made, a cut cannot be undone.

## Select clips

Hold a clip in the strip; tap more to add. Then:

- **Trash** deletes them. It asks first, and it cannot be undone. A clip that is also in another project stays there.
- **Share** exports them, or offers only those clips to phones nearby.
- **The plus** makes a new project from them, and asks *Copy* or *Move*.

## The order

Clips sort by when they were filmed, and you cannot rearrange them by hand. That is what lets clips from several people fall into one film by themselves.

## Import clips

Tap the download mark at the top left and pick clips from other projects, then tap **Import**. It asks *Copy* or *Move*. Copy keeps them where they are too; Move takes them out of there. Neither makes a second file on your phone.

## Projects

- **Duplicate:** press and hold a project on home. The new project shares the same clips, so there is still only one copy of each video.
- **Delete:** press and hold a project on home, then confirm. It cannot be undone.

If you have saved a project's film to Photos and changed nothing since, **Delete** says *Saved to Photos*. A clip leaves your phone only when you delete it, or delete the app, and its file only when no project uses it any more.