Can I freely drag & drop clips in iMovie's timeline?

I'm trying to make a vid of clips playing along with the lyrics of a song. It'd be easier if I could drag the clips wherever I want, but they just get stuck in the position they're dropped in.

Do you mean that you are trying to get the clips to change in time with the music? You can drag them around in any order but iMovie will not leave any spaces between them so you have to adjust their durations to get the timing right.
Geoff.

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I have imovie and my files (movies) open.
Why can't I drag my clips into imovie?

Drag and drop doesn't work - instead do a File -> import -> movies and select from there.

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

You can delete a complete clip which is not in use in any project by right-clicking it and choosing "move to trash". It won't actually appear in the trash can but will be permanently deleted when you quit iMovie.
Geoff.

Can I just drag/drop files to the TC to back them up ?

As it appears to be 'just' a hard drive, can I simply drag/drop any files I want to back up immediately, onto the TC and they will copy across ?
Will this not affect the backup images ?

Yes. The Time Capsule is indeed just a disk being served across the network with no special purpose. It is not dedicated to Time Machine (though that's probably what most people buy & use it for and it's certainly marketed for that purpose).
If you were doing Time Machine backups to a local disk (e.g. Firewire or USB connected external drive) then you'd you'd see a folder for your computers backups with loads of folders inside named for the date & time of that backup. Those are all maintained by Time Machine. You can drop a file anywhere else in the drive (don't drop it inside the folders that Time Machine maintains).
When using either Time Capsule or the newer Airport Extreme Base Station with the GigE & USB port for printer/disk support, Time Machine works just like a local disk except it encrypts the backup in a sparse image file (basically the same thing as 'FileVault') They key to encrypt/decrypt the data in the spare image is kept in your keychain. You can click your Time Capsule in Finder to mount it and you'll see the sparsebundle file(s). Your Time Machine backups are in the sparebundle files. You can drop & drop files anywhere you want on the Time Machine other than inside the sparsebundles (Time Machine manages them... so you shouldn't mess with those manually unless you know what you're doing.)

TA22875 how do i drag a clip in imovie????

how do i drag a clip in imovie??????

I've asked the hosts to move this to the iMovie forums: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141

Can't use drag&drop

Hello, I'm using MacBook Pro (retina, 15", late 2013, 2,3 GHz Intel core i7) and after using for a while happened smh strange. I can't use drag&drop, so I can't select the object and drag it. What is wrong?

Hello!
I wonder, does the issue persist even after a simple restart of OS X?
If so, please start Disk Utility (it's in your Applications>Utilities folder), click on your harddrive and select [repair disk permissions]

How i can do a drag drop between container (grid)?

I am trying to work out a task with Drag and Drop(WPF ,C#)to include in a demo ,i will explain easy showing an example of code in XAML
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Grid x:Name="container1" Grid.Row="0" >
<Grid Name="grid1" Background="Aqua" Margin="15"></Grid>
</Grid>
<Grid x:Name="container2" Grid.Row="1" >
<Grid Name="grid2" Background="blue" Margin="15"></Grid>
</Grid>
<Grid x:Name="container3" Grid.Row="2" >
<Grid Name="grid3" Background="green" Margin="15"></Grid>
</Grid>
</Grid>
My purpose is when the user drag the
grid1 in the
container2 automatically the grid2 will go to place in the
container1 (basically I want to swap the grids) then this process will be used every time need to drag a grid in a container. with a code that i wrote down i can do a simple drag&drop i can drag the "grid1"
to the "container2" but cannot send back automatically the grid2 to container1.
Kindly i ask if you have any advise or tips to make successful this task.
Thank you so much for your attention
Cheers!!!
*********EDIT*********
Using this code as follow i can do the drag&drop but what really i need is the grid "container "is fix and never move just the
"grid" should move between the "container "
<StackPanel Name="sp" AllowDrop="True" Background="SkyBlue" PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown="sp_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown" PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp="sp_PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp" PreviewMouseMove="sp_PreviewMouseMove"
DragEnter="sp_DragEnter" Drop="sp_Drop">
<Grid Name="grid1" Background="Aqua" Height="120" Width="500"></Grid>
<Grid Name="grid2" Background="Blue" Height="120" Width="500"></Grid>
<Grid Name="grid3" Background="Red" Height="120" Width="500"></Grid>
</StackPanel>
private bool _isDown;
private bool _isDragging;
private Point _startPoint;
private UIElement _realDragSource;
private UIElement _dummyDragSource = new UIElement();
public MainWindow()
InitializeComponent();
private void sp_PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
if (e.Source == this.sp)
else
_isDown = true;
_startPoint = e.GetPosition(this.sp);
private void sp_PreviewMouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
_isDown = false;
_isDragging = false;
_realDragSource.ReleaseMouseCapture();
private void sp_PreviewMouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
if (_isDown)
if ((_isDragging == false) && ((Math.Abs(e.GetPosition(this.sp).X - _startPoint.X) > SystemParameters.MinimumHorizontalDragDistance) ||
(Math.Abs(e.GetPosition(this.sp).Y - _startPoint.Y) > SystemParameters.MinimumVerticalDragDistance)))
_isDragging = true;
_realDragSource = e.Source as UIElement;
_realDragSource.CaptureMouse();
DragDrop.DoDragDrop(_dummyDragSource, new DataObject("UIElement", e.Source, true), DragDropEffects.Move);
private void sp_DragEnter(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
if (e.Data.GetDataPresent("UIElement"))
e.Effects = DragDropEffects.Move;
private void sp_Drop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
if (e.Data.GetDataPresent("UIElement"))
UIElement droptarget = e.Source as UIElement;
int droptargetIndex=-1, i =0;
foreach (UIElement element in this.sp.Children)
if (element.Equals(droptarget))
droptargetIndex = i;
break;
i++;
if (droptargetIndex != -1)
this.sp.Children.Remove(_realDragSource);
this.sp.Children.Insert(droptargetIndex, _realDragSource);
_isDown = false;
_isDragging = false;
_realDragSource.ReleaseMouseCapture();
Thanks :)

Hello Jonny,
Currently I do not have a sample and I have reviewed this post and find another way which seems more reasonable. Have you cosidered use a ListView instead of common grid. It seems we can do what you want with two common grid however we need to hardcoded
all the things.
If we use ListView, for example, you can see this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20573063/creating-icon-view-mode-for-listview-wpf
and this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9443695/how-do-i-drag-drop-items-in-the-same-listview
We can drag and drop items instead of grid, which will make this programming much easier than hard code to switch your control's location.
Best regards,
Barry
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Dear Barry Wang thank you so much for your kind support ,just open me a way to do it ,you can see in this post https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/55873851-e86c-4a20-9b00-de3419054ba8/get-stuck-to-dragdrop-in-this-case?forum=wpf .
Wish you a Happy New Year .
Sincerley

Can I rotate a video clip in imovie

CCan I rotate a video clip in imovie

Hello Sandra Seaman,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Yes, you can rotate a clip in iMovie. Check out the link below for instructions.
Rotate a clip
Take care,
Alex H.

TA22875 Why can't I drag MP4 Files into Imovie?

I'm trying to frag MP4 files into I Movie and when I release the mouse it just returns them to where they came.

OK
We here are not Apple or employed by them - the thoughts and wisdom of Apple is very occult to many of us !
We are as You - Users and trying to be of help for other users !
The thing is - I don't know about Codecs, and please take this the right way when I say - I'm not interested in Codecs.
I just want to drag my movie files taken in whatever format I take them in and drag them into Imovie to work on them.
mp4 is a fairly common format?
then I have very little possibility to be of help - as I only can guide You a bit of the way to understand and work around this Problem - I never denied it to be.
But it seems that every Camera company makes there own solutions and to make Video editing programs or DVD authoring ones that can use every strange Video Codec availably - is impossibly - Not even FinalCut or Avid or Adobe Premiere can do this.
.mp4 - is no more Video Codec as any folder or hard disk - and tell that my material is on a hard disk, doesn't help us in understanding where it goes wrong.
So if You want to get this to work - then You need to set of a minimum of interest in howto get it right.
To find out the Codec
• Open the file with QuickTime-Player (as it can open many many more Codecs than iMovie can use)
• here open Inspector [cmd+I] and read
Video Format (Codec) : nnnnnnnnnnnnn
Frames per second : YY.yy fps
What does they say ?
If You feel offended and don't want - There is no solution as I know of.
AND - I have no intention to offend at any cost - but need info (and so does the others here too) to be able to reach out a hand
Yours wanting to be of more help - Bengt W

Dragging QT clips to iMovie

I have a Firestore FS-4 Pro (external hard drive) that I use when recording football for the local community college. When recording, the footage is recorded as Quick Time files on the FS-4. When I mount the drive, open the folder and drag the files into iMovie, the clips are out of order. (Note: the clips are in order, according to time code, within the Folder on the hard drive.)
However, I did figure out that if I enlarge the Folder "window" so that the clips are say four or five across in each row, and then select only the clips in a given row, then the files get "imported" in order. So I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the way iMovie and/or Tiger in general handles the organization and "ordering" of files when they exchanged from a folder to say an application like iMoive. Thanks for the knowledge.

Or Streamclip coupled with QT pro
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Why can't I Drag & Drop a link from my address bar to my Bookmarks Toolbar in 4.0? I have the toolbar activated, but I can't do this. I was able to do it no problem with 3.6.

Drag & Drop for bookmarking a link from Address bar to Bookmarks Toolbar is not working in 4.0. Was working in 3.6, then I upgraded to 4.0 and everything got screwed up. How can I fix this?

I ditched 4.0 and went back to 3.6.17 but I can't drag and drop with it either. The Favicom idea didn't work for me either. Once in a great while it will work, but usually that ends up screwing up my bookmarks and everything being re-arranged. How could something so simple and basic NOT WORK anymore?

Why can IPhone not drag/drop BUT Ipod Touch can???!!!

Hi all,
Why can I not drag and drop files within Itunes to my Iphone (synch only)
Whereas on the inferior IPod touch I can !!1 Huh?????
SvK
Message was edited by: Steven von Kampen

BigT_NYCOM wrote:> Actually, from my understanding, iPods can sync contacts and calendars. At least my old Video iPod has all my contacts and calendar in it.
Yes they can, you are correct. I should have maybe said that in my post. I was merely trying to say that I believe they want to keep the iPhone more organized. I got out of dragging and dropping to my iPod after I created my first playlist. Makes things a lot eaiser just to sync a list.

HT1267 i've got about 2500 songs on my iphone, i have replaced my computer & lost my library-question is why can't i drag/drop new downloaded music to my iphone without 'syncing' & losing my 2500 songs from the iphone?

I've got about 2500 songs on my iphone, i have recently replaced my computer because the old one crashed, so i lost all the songs in the itunes library. My question is, it seems that now i am unable to drag/drop new downloaded songs without syncing my iphone & losing my 2500 songs from the phone?

You cannot. Iphone will sync/manually manage music with one and only one computer at a time. Syncing/manually managing with another will erase the current content from the iphone.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer. Use your backup copy to put everything back.

Why can't I move my clip from Source to Timeline?

I have 1:30 clip in my Source pane with one Mark In and one Mark Out defined. When I click on it to drag it, I get the hand icon with a circle and slash indicating I cannot grab it. I am unable to drag the clip from the Source pane to the Timeline pane.

Most of the time when people cannot drag the clip or part of the clip into the timeline (despite having a sequence) is because they forgot to source patch the track.
If I am not mistaken this feature was introduces in CS6.
Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Source patching and track targeting

Cannot drag & drop clip in Home Video of itune 11.1.3.8

It has been a few months since I last drop video clip onto the itune and then transfer it to my iphone by clicking the Sync button.
Today, when I tried to drop more clips into my Home Videos under the Movies to transfer to my iphone, I NO LONGER able to do so because, when I tried to drag clip over the itunes, the cursor icon immediately changes to a "do not enter" (i.e. a line across a circle) as soon as the cursor is over the itunes appl.
I then tried deleting a couple of clips which are currently on my iphone (Home Videos on iTunes), and then tried re-add it back, I faced the same problem.
PS: I had recently updated itunes to current verion 11.1.3.8 and I'm runing Windows 7 on my PC.
Can someone please help and explain to me what is happening ?
Thanks in adavance,

Having the same identical type problem with iPod Touch 5th Gen with iTunes. We have updated iOS to 7.0.4 (11B554a) and iTunes to 11.1.3.8.
We have tried the same steps as you have. I am just sorry SJ is no longer with us. My mistake is doing software upgrades early should have waited at least 9 months, My Bad, as the sayings go.
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