How can I delete unwanted video from iMovie?

HI Carlos, thanks. The current menu options indeed seem different. I could not find the triangle Nubz (thanks!) showed whatever I tried. I uninstalled the app after uploading the projects to iCloud. Hard to fathom why they wouldn't make this easier.

JPP

Hi gauntboy,

So you deleted all the projects from iMovie on your iPad but can't seem to delete the video clips themselves.

Have you clicked on that little disclosure triangle in the upper right were the clip count is?

From iMovie Help for iPad

Delete a video clip from your device

You can permanently delete a video clip recorded or imported into iMovie. If you already used the video clip in a project, you must remove the clip from the project before deleting it from your device.

1. To open the Projects browser, tap Projects at the top of the screen.

   If you don’t see Projects at the top of the screen, tap the back button .

2. Scroll the projects, then tap one to see project details.

3. Tap the Edit button or the project’s thumbnail image.

4. If your video clips don’t appear in the media library, tap Video.

   Note: If your iPad is in portrait orientation, first tap the Media Library button in the upper-right corner, then tap Video at the bottom of the screen.

5. Select a video category from the list.

6. Tap the disclosure triangle at the top next to the category name, then tap “Manage local media.”

   

7. Tap the Delete button for each video clip you want to delete.

   Clips that appear with an orange line along the bottom are being used in the project and must be removed from the project before being deleted. Clips that appear dimmed came from or were moved to the photo library and can’t be deleted from within iMovie. To delete those clips, use the Photos app on your device.

Take care.

Hi,

I am new here, but am feeling very frustrated. Apple products are supposed to be easier to use.

I purchased my daugter an ipad air 2 64gb for Christmas. She started using the imovie on this device to film little videos of her and her cousins doing gymnastics. There are 88 little clips ranging from a few seconds to a few minutes.

These videos show up under "video's in imovie. They are not in the camera roll. I can't seem to figure out a way to get them to the camera roll to be saved down to my PC or to google photos. Additionally, how does one delete one of these small clips showing up under "video" in the app itself.

I used tech support chat service which felt as bad as waiting for aol.com support in 1995. I tried calling the support number but after a 20 minute hold I gave up.

I just want to get the 88 videos out of imovie and moved over to the camera roll without having to create 88 projects and then saving them over to the camera roll only to discover I still can't delete them from imovie.

Any help or guidance is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Super Frustrated Dad.

I'm having a similar problem - approx 100 video clips in iMovie with no way of exporting all of them at once

It seems Apple want us to manually export every single one :/

Hi Nubz N.,

I don't have the little triangle icon nor the number for the count of videos. Previous to coming to this site, I had already deleted all my projects so maybe that has something to do with it.

Any other suggestions or am I still missing something?

Thanks.

Okay, so I had the same problem and I found a fix,

Go to iMovie app first, then click on projects, then create project,chose movies, then on top click on media which would take you back to the root folder of iPhone media library, over there chose videos, in videos chose iMovie video, then you can delete the videos one by one by clicking edit on the top right corner of the screen and do not close or minimise app. you have to go back after deleting the videos, and click cancel and delete the project you have created (trash icon on bottom), and done! All the videos are gone.

Hope it helps. :)

Okay, so I had the same problem and I found a fix,

Go to iMovie app first, then click on projects, then create project,chose movies, then on top click on media which would take you back to the root folder of iPhone media library, over there chose videos, in videos chose iMovie video, then you can delete the videos one by one by clicking edit on the top right corner of the screen and do not close or minimise app. you have to go back after deleting the videos, and click cancel and delete the project you have created (trash icon on bottom), and done! All the videos are gone.

Hope it helps.

I think this works. However, in the iMovie update from late 2016 the menu options are different.

I deleted the app an reinstalled it. That wipes out those horrible unwanted videos.

p.s. I was a little annoyed.