Trying to do simple cuts in imovie

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Trying to do simple cuts in imovie

Please bear with me as I'm having trouble finding documentation on this very simple task that I want to do.

In imovie HD, I would drag clips on the timeline, put the marker where I want to split it, and select "split video clip at playhead". I would do this to put specific scenes together with no special effects, just straight cuts.

I'm finding the imovie 8 interface a bit complicated, especially the way when I drag a movie into the project, it separated it with all the little boxes in the timeline, as opposed to the clips that I used to drag that were timed as I wanted them to be in imovie HD.

Is there a simple way to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Posted on Aug 11, 2007 7:59 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 12, 2007 11:02 PM in response to macgurl88

Hey macgurl88,

I just literally found out how to do it while editing my own movie 🙂

what you have to do is, on the storyboard (ie, the events window - bottom right by default), reject parts of the clip you don't need (make your selection of the clip you don't need using the yellow rectangle thing, and right click _. *reject selection*), and then drag the selection to the project view (top left)..

Make sure you are hiding your rejected clips though.

Hope that makes sense

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Answer 2

Aug 12, 2007 11:15 PM in response to macgurl88

Hi

Yes and if You ctrl-click on Your clip You get an yellow boarder and a small
hand that let's you grap the clip and move it to Your movie project.

The small boxes on the left and right on this yellow outlining lets You cut of
parts in beginning and end of it.

Yours Bengt W

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Answer 3

Aug 13, 2007 12:01 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Sorry

ctrl-click - should have read - alt-click or option-click

Yours Bengt W

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Answer 4

Aug 13, 2007 1:37 AM in response to macgurl88

follow Clint's advice given here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5119914#5119759

... I think, we Ol' iM Users have to axe some habitual rituals...
the User Interface is VERY different, e.g. what you see, is not 'clips' ... I would call it 'stripes of film' ...

.. think different, and iM-EZ allows 'simple cuts' with a charme... 🙂

in addition:
using Clint's workflow, you can very easiely add many parts from a single 'clip'/import or, repeatedly same part of a clip at many positions in your project .. in iMHD you had to do that ctrl-mouse 'trick' ...

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Aug 13, 2007 7:46 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

thanks everyone - I ended up spending the weekend fooling around with the software, reading this board and watching the tutorial videos - I think I have a pretty good grasp of how to do what I need to do for my never ending project.

I know a lot of people are complaining about this compared to imovie 6, but now that I understand what I am doing this is absolutely perfect for me. I'm very glad that I made the upgrade.

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