No clips when exporting project from iM4 to camcorder?
Hello,
I haven't used iMovie in awhile, but I am fairly comfortable with it. Here's the problem, I have started working on an older project. I am importing footage from my older videos (8mm videocassettes). When you import these older videos they DON'T create clips, you just get one long clip, usually broken up by 9:28 (9 minutes, 28 seconds) segments - since this is the default setting (at least that's what it is on my Mac). Anyway, I then spend the time to MANUALLY separate the individual clips - creating the traditional clips that we are all used to working on with the modern cameras. In the end, I have hundreds of small, individual clips in my "time-line" that I can use to make my movie. I have always exported these clips back to my newer camera so that I have all of these old "clips" on a "miniDV" tape for archive and ease of use in the future.
The problem is that when I tried this today, I noticed that my exported movie did NOT separate into the clips that I have spent so long creating? It is just one big long 61 minute clip with NO BREAKS? I know that I have done this in the past, - many times. Like I said, it has been awhile since I have used iMovie (maybe a year or two), but has something changed? Is there a setting that I need to change or something like that? I just want to export my newly created clips to a miniDV?
Any help would be appreciated!
Lincoln
PS: I usually use iMovie 6, but when I import these older movies I still like iMovie 4 because it doesn't have the "non-destructive" editing feature. Like I said, when you import older footage you get these 9:28 long clips, and when you "split" each clip out to create the normal sized clips that you want, if you use iMovie6 you end up with the same hundreds of individual small clips, BUT each small clip is actually the ENTIRE 9:28 long! So you really drain your harddrive. Maybe I am doing something stupid here too, so if anyone has a better idea for working with the older videos I would LOVE to hear from you! (I still have about 5 years worth of older family videos on the 8mm videocassettes that I need to convert).