Event Browser - Display Playhead Info iMovie 11?

Hello all, I've spent a great deal of time trying to get the playhead info to display in the event browser. It is important for this to work as I want to make a compilation video from 4 or 5 different feeds and have to sync the video to the recorded sound. I've tried the suggestions in previous topics such as renaming the file to the following format clip-2007-04-01 12;23;03.mov. This suggestion does not work for me and the playhead displays the date created not the information in the file name.
Anyone have any suggestions? Is this even possible? This is driving me crazy.

AppleMan1958 wrote:
I am stumped.…
My only other thought is to consider the country you are in.
In the US that should work. …
5¢ from Europe here:
a) I would NEVER consider to fumble a data-base app (=iMovie) by re-naming any content outside the app. iMovie offers an 'Adjust Clips Date & Time'-feature …
b) the problem occurs with 00:00 (just learned the phrase 'dark zero' )
from my European perspective - is this a 12 either? or, when is12am, resp. 12pm? and in computer/Unix logic: what (or when?) is the difference btw 12pm and zerozero?
with my (German) local settings, I don't have any am or pm in the clips tag, nor in its real file name.
so, could be a simple translation error - from metric to am/pm, or from am/pm to 'computer-ish'/Unix
summary: use the built-in Adjust feature

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