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So I have copied a copious amount of old home movies to disk. Most of them have several different events on them. I have figured out how to import a single movie and break it down into individual clips in the timeline. I want to save each clip as a separate, small movie. I don't see any way to do that with iMovie. Anyone know of other software that might do this?
iMac 24″, macOS 12.3
Copying the split segment of the clip to a new project, and then exporting out from that project, would be the only way to preserve any edits (i.e, your split) that you have made. In the old iMovie 6 one could select a segment in the timeline and share it out separately from the rest of the clips in the project. Unfortunately that helpful feature was eliminated in later versions of iMovie.
As a matter of work flow, you wouldn't need to delete the new project and create a new one each time. You can export a project as many times as you want. So, put segment #1 into the new project, export it out, and then delete segment #1 from the new project and import Segment #2 and export segment #2 out. Repeat the process with segments #3, #4, etc. until all of your segments in the master project have been separately saved. Once they are saved you can keep them in a finder folder for later use (recommended) and/or import the clip segments into a newly created iMovie event for access by all of your projects. Keeping them stored in the Finder and in iMovie as well, would double the drive space being used. However, if you are going to store the clips in one place, in my view it would be better to store them in a finder folder where they can be readily accessed for different purposes and not be trapped in an application that might get corrupted or become obsolete. If the one place that you store your clips is in the iMovie app, be aware that iMovie libraies sometimes do get corrupted. Also, it can be awkward to retrieve clips for use outside of iMovie.
-- Rich
Thanks Rich. That does work, even if it is a lot of steps that could easily be a simple right click on selected clip and save to file. The annoying part is you have to save the project and then delete it. My goal is to simple have a folder of saved clips to then create movies. Apple programmers are making this harder than it needs to be. IMHO
Thanks for the work around.
You are correct that one cannot save individual clips from a group of clips.
However, the way that it is done is to select the clip in the timeline and do and Edit/Copy. Then open a newly created empty project and Edit/Paste the clip into the timeline of the new project. Your edits will carry over. You can use the new project as an archive, or share out (export) the project to a standalone movie consisting of one clip. You can import the exported movie back into an iMovie project or event if you want.
-- Rich
Thank you Rich. That does help simplify a bit. And yes, I plan to keep the clips saved in a folder to be accessible when creating movies. I'm guessing they removed that very simple, helpful feature so one would have to purchase a separate product.
Thanks again for the help.
You are very welcome.
-- Rich
I have clips on the timeline, how can i save the each clip as individual movies?
