Difference between Events and Projects

But I feel for cheekyage because:
in 2017, when you choose PROJECTS you can import all the clips from your camcorder, et al to the PROJECT.

OR

you can choose EVENTS and you can import all the clips from your camcorder into the EVENTS.

I just shot a wedding and imported all the clips to EVENT. And I see I have a project called "My Movie" with "Projects" clicked. I go to leave and iMovie wants a name. Okay. Wedding.

Now, I have a PROJECT named "Wedding" and an EVENT named "Wedding" and I could have just made one apparently. Apparently there is no difference other than creating confusion.

My "list" now is very confusing as well since iMovie updated and I have projects and events and copies and duplicates and stuff that was a project but etc etc blah blah blah.

So, back to tweak the original question:

WHY would anyone choose PROJECT over EVENT or vice versa to import into? What are the advantages of one over the other? Other than clicking on a picture in the PROJECTS or clicking on a line item in EVENTS if you're going to make a final edited version.

WHY would anyone choose PROJECT over EVENT or vice versa to import into?

I like the separation into events and projects. The events are what I organize and name to create an archive of the raw media files. The projects are a secondary structure for how I am using them. If I import directly into a project, I am no longer free to name the event folder. iMovie will save the media to an event created by iMovie after I delete the project. If I create ten projects from these media and then delete them again, when finished, I'll have ten different sets of events with related media files, organized by the way the media have been used in projects, not by the shooting sessions. I prefer to create the archive structure based on the shooting sessions, directly when I am importing photos.

You're welcome 🙂 It is the prerogative of the original poster, who asked the question, to award Solved and Helpful marks. This will immediately produce a golden Helpful star or a green solved mark. You should also be able to click a "helpful", if you are not the original poster, but it takes at least five helpful marks from different people, until the "Helpful" star will be shown, if they are not the original poster - that is highly unlikely ever to happen 😁

TuckerdogAVL wrote:

PS I'd rate you, but Apple won't let the "helpful' work in either Safari or Firefox. :-) Thanks.

I've added one on your behalf. Perhaps you have an ad-blocker or some other security software that is blocking the click action. It may also be worth clearing your browser caches.

tt2

I actually just discovered all my ad blockers on all my browsers were turned off. So, I have no idea. I usually have to try all three browsers and eventually one will allow me to do something when the other two aren't. Biggest offender is Safari. So many websites, too, don't optimize for Safari at all and some don't work no matter what.

I've repeatedly attempted to change the default from Snow Leopard to El Capitan in the "listing, what OS are you using" and it defaults back to Snow Leopard. Don't have any desire to waste any more with the time vampire attempting to fix that; I haven't used Snow Leopard since Yosemite came out, whenever that was.

The events for projects are collecting the media imported into a project. These events are making the media accessible from other projects, while you are working on a different project.

With the project open you are seeing the media used in the project in a different way too.But the media are not duplicated.

Here's is how I have been framing it after lots of excruciating time spent trying to make sense of this. Yes Dorothy we are far from Apple's old intuitive era.
The a) Library holds b) Events - these are your raw footage that you bring into IMovie.

You create a c) Project and give it a name - that can be the same as the events or a different one. You do this by drawing from the Events (and/or from photos) to build your Project, But you can't really open your Library to see your Projects because Projects is simply a series of commands you have given to your Event (move this here, cut this from there, etc).

Your Project is not a Movie however - even though you got to choose in the beginning between "Move" or "Trailer".

It is not until you render it i.e. export it into a format that it becomes a d} "Movie"

So in short the sequence is Event > Project > Movie. They are all contained in the Library but not are visible as if they were a normal series of documents in folders within folders.

The three tabs at the top of the IMovies window actually mirror that reality "Media/Projects/Theater".

So if I named an event "Holiday 2016", what should I be naming the project?

I would call the project "Holiday 2016 Project", but you are free to name it as you like. It is up to you.

I don't know if I can clarify any more...

An event is a simply collection of related video clips, stills, audio files (i.e. media) that you have imported and are available to any project in the same library. You split media up between different events and give them relevant names simply to make media easier to find.

Since version 10.1 if you select 'PROJECT MEDIA' the browser displays all media currently used in that particular project (which may come from more than one event).

A project, as gregoire7 says, is essentially a set of instructions to tell iMovie what to do with which clips when the movie is rendered (shared). These instructions are generated as you edit.

Geoff.

I think that's understandable.

Try it this way - going backward up the production line ;-)

You have exported something into Youtube - that's now a Movie (go to Theater - top middle of window- to see these)

It was a series of changes you'd made to clips - that's called a Project (Go to Projects - top middle of window- to see these)

To create the project you pulled in bits of footage - these are Events (Go to Media -top middle of window- or click on Library in the left hand nav column to see these).

So let's go the other way. Imagine you're making a film about a ski trip - no let's do a beach trip - that you shot.

You have footage of 1- getting out of the car 2-putting on wetsuits 3- getting on your boards 4 - catching a nice wave

You upload those into media and name them individually (these names will appear above the preview window if you keep "I" for information button turned on - AND in the left hand nav column in Library as Events.

Those four things are Events in the eyes of Mac. They are also referred to as clips.

You hit "New Project" and begin to pull part or all of these bits into your Timeline and start modifying them. When you go to leave - IMovie will ask you to give it a name. This is your Project i.e. modified bits of events that are not yet exported into a movie.

Once you've tweaked as much as you want - you've added music and some sweet ending - you "export" into your favorite format or platform - now you've made a Movie and the Project no longer exists. (But the Events remain).

To see the events go to Library or hit Media at the top, to see the projects you're working on click on Projects at the top, to see exhorted projects click on Theater at the top.

PS The raw events will stay as Events. But if you think you will want to come back and re-use the edited Events simply make a duplicate of the project then only export one. Do this by clicking on the ... thingy underneath the Project. The other will stay in your Library.

Just to correct a small point: You say "you "export" into your favorite format or platform - now you've made a Movie and the Project no longer exists."

The project does still exist and you can resume editing it and later share a modified version of the movie. Sharing just makes a movie from the project as it currently is. It doesn't change the project in any way.

Geoff.

Great. I get it. And this makes perfect sense. However, if one chooses to, one can bypass events and go directly to Projects. Or, can just use events and make a movie from there, correct?