Building scenes in IMovie

Is there a way to build scenes in IMovie, then assemble those scenes into a final movie? I am working with over 100 clips and would prefer to combine related ones into small scenes rather than trying to organize them all in one timeline. (Apologies if this is duplicative. I posted the same question four hours ago, but there is no trace of it.)

Select the frames you want to delete. Then right-click/Delete Selection (or EDIT/Delete Selection). That works for Projects. You could also select Edit/Trim to selection. That trims off everything in the clip except what you have selected.
If you want to permanently delete some scenes from your event file, you use the reject tool, then move to the rejected clips view, and select move to trash.

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I made a quick 'n dirty demo:
http://youtu.be/cdejMJyW17Q
that is a 2min-done Motion5 Project:
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drag in the plane
'paint' the route as a bezier
apply behavior to plane, follow that line
for cosmetics: turn to direction ...
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HELP!!
I ripped a DVD to my desktop at a pretty high quality using handbrake. It's a full-length movie weighing in at 3.35 GB. I then imported that movie into iMovie 11 so I could edit out some language. If I view the movie full screen from the Event Library section in iMovie 11 it looks fine. As good as the newly ripped version on my desktop. When I highlight the whole movie in the Event Library and drag it into the Project Library as a new project, it turns to garbage. Horribly pixelated dark scenes to the point that it is not even viewable. Thinking that this was just a problem with the preview window when viewed in full screen, I edited the video and burned it using iDVD. It burned just as badly as it looked in the Project Library. There must be something happening between the Event Library and the Project Library that is just killing the video quality. Any help/suggestions would be extremely appreciated.
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However, you are still not going to like the results of your ripped MPEG Streamclip DV-video when imported into iMovie 09 or 11. The quality will get degraded by nature of the latest iMovie programs.
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Hi Harmless - I do not think that your problem has anything to do with the external drive. Your project must have been crreated on an earlier version of iMovie - iMovie 4 perhaps, and contained in a standard folder. It can be upgraded to an HD project - best to use a copy for this, just in case....!
When you upgrade, it will firstly be converted only partially into the new version, so you have to take another step to fully convert>
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"A project created by iMovie 5 is a special kind of folder called a package. It looks and acts like a file. The package contains all the files and folders you see, but they are all hidden inside the package. To open the project in iMovie you double-click on the package.
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iMovie 9 can mean different things - What do You need ?
iMovie History 08, 09 & 11
NOT AN EVOLUTION FROM Previous versions but a totally new application.
iMovie 08 (v7) 7.1.4 (aug 2007)
A new way of storing project and an event library as well
A totally new product in a pre-release state. Far from a working application.
Lacks even basal functions
No Speed-up or down or reverse
Lot’s of video-formats lacking
No cont. TimeLine - Bad logic
No good for interlaced SD-video from miniDV tape aimed to a DVD release.
(Discarding every second line makes quality as VHS in LP or EP mode = BAD)
NO - Playback via Camera/FW - and this prevents 100% safety-backups and the use of an extra TV/Monitor as real-time Quality control (as in iM 1 to HD6)
Color tools got much BETTER - nearly usable - even sort of a copy function
Direct share to .Mac and YouTube
More Cameras supported even AVCHD (need of Intel CPU)
Do not run on G4 or older - G5 minimum
Need of 1.9 GHz G5-Mac,
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Mac OS X.4.9 minimum
QuickTime 7.2 included
Aimed at - speed editing small video projects to be presented on the Internet - NOT DVDs
iMovie 09 (v8) 8.0.6 (jan 2009)
Far better than iMovie 08 but still far from good.
Pic in pic, green screen but rudimentary
Image stabilization - fairly good for amateur use
Speed-up/down and reverse
Bl/W, Old age etc
Still - No Continuos TimeLine
NO - Possibilities to enhance by use of third-part Plug-ins (all investments lost)
NO - Playback via Camera/FW - and this prevents 100% safety-backups and the use of an extra TV/Monitor as real-time Quality control (as in iM 1 to HD6)
Aimed at - speed editing small video projects to be presented on the Internet - NOT DVDs
iMovie 11 (v9) 9.0.x - 9.0.4 (2011 july)
Will be - Intel Only - Snow Leopard minimum Mac OS X.6.3
YES:
Advanced view including a true TimeLine ? Yes but rudimentary (very basic)
True Story-board - where You even can write and prepare space for lacking material that needs to be obtained or re-shoot. YES
Better wave-form presentation of audio and audio tools - Rubber-band - Yes
Trailer creating tool
”Faces” as in iPhoto - NO - but this finds if there are people in some video-clips
Better audio tools. Equalizer and a background audio reducer
More Camera support e.g. 24fps
NO
not 64-bit only
The Playback to Camera via FW - returns ? NO
Full Quality to iDVD - NO - still only half - every second line - Questionable - Some indicates it to be able to loss-less Exports - Has to be proven
Plug-in facility ? - NO
No free text tool
Tool to mask an identity e.g.. band over face or un-sharp area. - NO (could be obtained via Plug-ins in iM HD6 and earlier)
Animation tool - To point on interesting object/player - NO animations refer to a totally different
thing connected to Story-board and insert of ”dummy animations” while building a movie
iMovie 13 (v10) 10.0.x - 9.0. (2013 autum)
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Yours Bengt W

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iMovie frequently crashes when I try to export my project from share and select File. This has been an on going issue ever since I updated to the latest OS. It has never been like this until I got the latest update. Version of iMove is 10.0.6 build 252905. OS V. 10.10-14A389, Mid 2010. Please help. I need my iMovie working now so I can finish a Thanksgiving surprise video. Thanks a lot!!!!
Yoseph

I hope I am not too resource intensive with 42 photos
using Ken Burns and dissolve transitions with each
photo and having an opening reflection black theme.
My guess is it's not a resource problem. When exporting to QuickTime your Mac can take whatever time it needs, which lowers demands on resources.
You could try creating a new user account, building a new iMovie project with most of the same elements, and seeing if that behaves okay. If it does, that suggests a software conflict when YOU are the user.
One possible source of a conflict is third-party QuickTime add-ons and iMovie plug-ins. When experiencing crashes, remove all to see if it helps.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4030731#4030731
You haven't said... Are you running QuickTime 7.1.5? That fixes some bugs apparently. We've seen a number of reports of users with Intel Macs say problems went away with that upgrade.
Note that since your photos aren't huge you might do as well using a 720p project. Yours are having to be enlarged as they are imported to 1080i.
And if you want to save the disk space, turning OFF the Ken Burns checkbox will do no harm.
Karl

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Hello
I've started to build projects with Imovies 11. On each of them I have the same problem when I insert a picture from Iphoto library
the thumbnails on the project is the right one, but when I play the movie, sometimes another picture is playing.
Sometimes the right one sometimes the wrong one. It seems random and I can't see any correlation to all of this.
Please tell me i'm doing something wrong, I can't believe that Apple can't handle a simple task like playing the right picture you put in your project
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Problem onreported on:
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Hi,
I'm struggling with creating a multimedia slide show in aperture. Of course it's possible to import HD videos into aperture, but how can I import movies that I optimized in imovie before? The only way so far I found is to work on every scene in imovie, save it individually as an imovie project and export it into .mov to then open that one in Aperture - scene by scene.
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Hi, and welcome to the Forums.
First, just in case there's another option for recovery, do you happen to know how the pictures we're accidentally lost?
As for recovering them from iMovie/iDVD:
You can download the free open source (and useful) VLC Media Player. www.videolan.org/vlc
Below is a link to a tutorial (scroll down past the Windows portion) to show you how to grab a frame from your .mov file used to create your DVD. The quality of the photo frame captured may likely be less than the quality of the original photo from your camera, but it's better than nothing and will probably still look fine when used in other slide shows, screen savers, on iDevices, etc.
http://www.tvcrit.com/tvcrit3/framegrab/VLC9/

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In iMovie, I have my movie separated into 4 scenes.....how do I import the 4 scenes from iMovie to iDVD to play as one continuous movie?

Do you mean you have 4 separate movies? Or do you have one iMovie with 4 chapters using chapter markers?
If you have 4 separate movies, you can import them into iDVD as 4 individual movies, and they will play separately. If you want them to play continuously, you need to put them all into one iMovie, use chapter markers to mark the beginning of each 'scene' (except for th first one which iDVD will do automatically).
When you then import the long iMovie into your iDVD project you will see the options to 'Play Movie' and 'Scene Selection' where the viewer can opt to view the entire movie or choose to have it begin at a particular scene. Just as commercial DVDs do, the movie will play from that selection to the end.
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