Can you join clips in iMovie 10.0.1?

I'm not clear exactly what you want to do. I mean iMovie is essentially about joining short movie clips and exporting one longer movie file. Just put the clips you want to join in the desired order on the timeline, do any editing you want and export (share) the result.

Geoff.

Geoff,

in the older versions of iMovie, you could right click (or control click) when two adjacent clips were highlighted, and there was an option to "join clips."

this was useful for cropping if you wanted to have the same crop or ken burns effect on two clips, you could connect them and apply the effect once. it's also useful for Picture in Picture if you want a series of clips to be in the same place - iMovie 10.0.1 doesn't allow me to resize multiple PIP clips at the same time, so it's very difficult to get them all to be the same size and position without merging them into a single clip.

I'm sure joining clips is useful for other things two. I'm frustrated that they took out this feature, and really confused as to why...

If you want to copy any adjustments from one clip to another or others you select the clip you want to copy from, Edit - Copy then select the clip/s you want to have the same adjustments and go Edit - Paste Adjustments and you can select which adjustment you want to copy. If you want two PIP s o be the same you copy from one, select the other/s and Paste Adjustmnets Cutaway Settings.

Geoff.

I think its mostly a matter of getting used to the new user interface. Its more similar to Final Cut Pro X.

Geoff.

what if you want to reconnect 2 clips that have been split, and it's not on in the undo history?

Select both clips to be joined and go Modify - Join Clips

Geoff.

Aha! That's what I was looking for. Thank you!

Nate

I've just updated to iMovie 10.0.1 and can't do a thing with it. I have 6 clips which I want to join. I select all 6 clips and when I go to "Modify" > "Join Clips" the choice isn't highlighted at all, so it is impossible to join my clips. Also, I can't find anywhere, where I can simply choose "Finalize" to publish my short film anywhere. It doesn't exist. My biggest mistake was to update to 10.0.1. I've wasted about 20 hours trying to join and/or finalize my short little clips, so iMovie 10.0.1 is totally useless.

Join clips only works for clips that were originally part of the same larger clip but have been split - its really more of a 'heal' instruction.

Why do you want to join your clips? This is exacly what iMovie will do when you share (export) your movie.

There is no need to finalise your project - just share it - you can still go back to it, make changes and share again.

The user interface of imovie 10 is much changed and you need to study the help information. The web version:

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#

has a better search capability than the one accessed from within imovie.

You won't find most of the things you are familiar with in the same place as before.

Geoff.

Cheers Geoff,

What I just managed to do is add the Movie part to my clips and then I was able to export/share. Before I did that everything was impossible.

Thanks for your help, much appreciated :-)

Andy.

One example where it becomes necessary to join clips is in time lapse video where you want a particular effect to take place over a duration of time that encompasses two separately shot clips.

Here's the example I'm currently dealing with:

I shot a time lapse video over the course of approximately three weeks. The camera did not run constantly over that time period. Rather, I recorded video only when necessary, so some of the clips are (say) 30 seconds long, while others are only a couple of seconds. In assembling a movie from all these clips I would like to join two or more clips, then apply the Ken Burns effect over that entire sequence of clips. This really can't be done in a smooth manner unless you are able to tell iMove "yeah, I know there are three separate clip segments, but please glue them all together because I'm going to use them as one clip."

Yes, I know I can join the clips using QuickTime or another application, but it's just a pain to constantly be going in and out of iMovie if I have a whole bunch of small clips that need to be stitched onto the start or end of longer clips.

This capability has never been in iMovie. You needFinal Cut Pro for that sort of thing.

Geoff.

Geoff,

I have iMovie 10.0.03. I have 6 clips I want to join together but the option of Join Clips is not highlighted either (as happened to Andy).

The reason I want to join the clips is... when I share my project, it exports only one of the clips. Wherever the cursor is, that´s the clip that gets exported. If I click outside the project so that the cursor is not over any of the clips, it will still export only the first clip!

How can I make it so that the entire project is shared?!!! Help!

Sofia

I think you may be trying to share from your Events pane. Have you created a project and put the clips into its timeline?

Geoff.