How to display clip durations in iMovie 10.1.15?

You are welcome. It is puzzling why the handy feature of duration display on the clip would be eliminated. It might be just an unintentional glitch in the software that possibly will be cured in a later update.

Or it can simply be a corrupt preference, that can happen sometimes with updates. You might try deleting preferences and see if that cures it. Open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and select to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. See if the display is any different.

-- Rich

Hi, Tim,

I don't use that version of iMovie so can't speak directly to the issue that you mention.

However, if you click on the information button (the one that is a circle with an "i" in it) in the tool bar at the top right of your screen, a duration box will appear just below and to the right. Then, every time that you click on a clip in the timeline its duration will be displayed in the duration box. At least, it works that way on my computer. Maybe a little more useful than a "chocolate teapot". :)

-- Rich

Try going to File > Open Library > New.  Create the new library and copy over the project you were working on, and see if that resolves the issue.  If it does, continue using the new library.

-- Rich

I have this question as well. I'm pretty sure this is a bug, not a feature. The "hover over the clip for duration time" is such a vital part of the editing workflow in iMovie that's it's hard to believe that Apple would simply eliminate it. What is displayed in the mouse hover is the project title. Thanks, Apple. I already know that. Fix this please.

One encouraging thing about this update and using the information button is that there was a long term problem of it showing the duration of a clip in seconds only. Times there are now displayed in minutes AND seconds (when applicable). For the longest time (years), I only saw seconds. Anything over 59 seconds would be described as 135 seconds or whatever. Not very useful to us humans. Now, it shows seconds or minutes and seconds (when applicable). I think it is still using 10ths of minutes for the fractions of minutes. It wold be more useful for it to show seconds when there is more than a minute as normal time increments of 1/01 to 59. Maybe we'll get there someday.

I really preferred to see it while hovering over the clip in the timeline. And to have this just removed without configuration is just not helpful.

Ughh I came to the forum for the exact same reason. This is REALLY annoying. I wish I hadn't of updated iMovie.

same question, it's such a loss

Just did. Thanks for the link, Tim.

Also done. Thanks

I added my request.

That's interesting. As I said, I'm not running the latest update so I didn't know that the info displays minutes and 10ths. On iMovie 10.1.12 it displays only seconds.

-- Rich