I have read all the discussions and connot figure this out. I can view rejected clips, but have no way to delete them or put them in Trash. If I select Move to Trash it trashes the whole clip. Thanks for any help.
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I might be wrong, but this appears to be working for me - as I had the same problem but stumbled upon this simple solution :
To delete entire imported clips from the ‘my movie’ pane where you have already exported a section of that clip to the timeline:
Using this method, it seems you can delete entire clips that contain unwanted sections AND wanted sections, without affecting the clips you have exported to the actual movie timeline.
No you can't delete parts of used clips, especially parts that are used in project. If you check the contents of the library you will still find the clips there. It is possible that they will be moved from an event to project media. If you want to save space the most effective thing to do in the current version of iMovie is to delete render files in iMovie preferences.
Geoff.
Well, I just did - multiple times. The clips may exist elsewhere however they're gonna from where I want them gone from : the 'my movie' pane.
The issue I was having, was that there were so many imported clips (that I'd used only small sections of) that were sitting in the 'my movie' pane, that it was slowing iMovie down - noticeably. Also, I was struggling to find the last imported movie in the 'my movie' pane as it was so crowded, and couldn't figure out how to remove the imported clips as I'd previously been able to do under earlier versions of iMovie - until I happened upon the solution described above. I'm using iMovie 10.1.4 but the way.
Have just exported my completed movie to file, and ALL the clips are there - so the method above does clear the clips from the 'my movie' pane without removing them from the active project.
After much searching, it appears that this is a feature that has simply been removed from iMovie.
In iMovie 10, you can no longer trim, split, or otherwise modify "clips" in your event library. Whatever you shot in-camera and imported is stuck in your library unless you delete the whole clip, after incorporating it into a finished "Movie."
Thanks for that. Just to be sure: if I delete the event, the Movie made with it will not be affected, right?
Apple madness ....
My workaround, save the clip to your desktop, open in Quicktime, View menu, Show Clips, move the play head to where you want to split the clip, Edit menu, Split clip, select the portion of the clip you do not want and delete. File menu, Export, save file. Re-import in to iMovie
Sure this use to be easy 😟
i used this feature before upgrading to iMovie 10.0 to easily manage storage .. basically shooting lots of video then easily editing in iMovie to move rejected selections to trash. Can't believe the feature was removed. Thanks Ian Dunton for the workaround but that's not practical. Any other options? How can I revert back to 9.0.9?
Yes, I used this a ton for 10 years of home video import... I reject and then delete portions of event clips I don't need to keep around. This is a big shortfall missing feature.
Bummed.
This is one of the reasons I am going to Final Cut Pro X
To delete part of a clip you just 'Split Clip' twice; once where you want to begin to delete part and once where you want to end it. The 'Split the Clip' is under the Modify menu item. Then you can just delete the middle clip.
Make sense?
You can 'Split Clip' under the Modify menu item.
The new approach in iMovie 10 and FCP 10.1 is that you can't edit in any way your imported media in Events. You either have the complete clip as imported or you can delete it. (If its in use in any projects it can't be deleted).
This means that if you want to remove superfluous footage from a clip or you want to split long clips into smaller parts, you have to do it before importing, for example using Quicktime 10 or 7. This of course requires copying those clips from the camera first to disk using Finder rather than directly into iMovie.
Geoff.
You can 'Split Clip' under the Modify menu item. Try it and let me know if you have questions.
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You can only 'Split Clip' in a project. This allows you to, e.g., apply video edits to less than all of an imported clip.
You can NOT 'Split Clip' in the event viewer. It's grayed out. This prevents you from, e.g., importing a large clip, and deleting unwanted portions of it.
Hi
I wanted to delete the "rejected" portions of a clip. I made iMovie show only teh rejected clips and deleted them all. I realized now that iMovie deleted the whole clip that included portions that were marked as favorites, unmarked, not just the rejected. Luckily I do have the original files elsewhere but I threw away a couple of hours of work.
If i have a long clip and I want to get rid of "bad" / "useless" sections of what is marked rejected there should be an easy way in iMovie. Is tehre?
if I split a clip does the original file gets split or not? Is tehre a quick way to do that without a too much cumbersome workaround?
thanks
stefano
iMovie 10 - how to delete rejected portions of a clip
