Split Clip greyed out in iMovie

Hi, hustlerhunny,

As a workaround, put an original and a duplicate of the clip side by side in the timeline. Then trim back the right edge of one to the split point and the left edge of the other to the split point.

-- Rich

Hi hustlerhunny,

We understand you're having an issue using iMovie as expected. We'll be happy to help.

Does this issue occur with all movie clips or just this one? If you haven't already, go through the steps in this article and see if they have any impact on this:

If iMovie isn't working on your Mac

Then try splitting the clip once more:

iMovie for Mac: Move and split clips

Hope this helps. Have a great day!