How do i split events when Split Events Before Selected Clips is not even highlighted

iMovie question - how do i split events when Split Events Before Selected Clips is not even highlighted?  I just puchased this new iMac yesterday and i am still trying to figure things out!

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  • Why won't "Split events before selected clip"  work?

    In IMovie'11, when I select a clip from an event and want to split it, I go to File, and the option "Split events before selected clip" is not highlighted, so I cannot do that task! Has anyone else had that problem? In fact if I select a clip in an event and go to Edit, and to the option "Split event" it also is not hightlighted so I cannot do that either! This is very frustrating as I am trying to organize my videos in order to burn them to a DVD.

    Oops sorry - I'm new to iMovie, except for a short one I did a couple years back from stills.  I only take the occasional one with my p&s camera - so it's mp4's - but now I've got a project I want to do for my son and his band.  So, another learning curve
    Yes I've been trying to split clips in the events browser.  And sometimes the "split event" option come up black, but most times it's greyed out.  Sometimes I even get the black and greyed-out in different places within the same event.  I can't find any logic behind it, it appears to be random.
    I haven't come across anything called "the timeline" - so don't know what that is.  I searched it just now in iMovie but nothing came up.

  • Split event before selected clip grayed out

    When editing movies, the option "split event before selected clip" is always grayed out...can anyone help???

    The reason to split an event is to make the footage easier to find when you start making projects. For example, if you shot a birthday party on the afternoon and a football game at night, they might import into the same Event (based on date). You could select the first clip of football and right-click/Split Event Before Selected Clip. Now you have two Events...a birthday party event and a football event.
    This has nothing to do with sharing and projects.
    A single project can use clips from many events.
    And you can make many projects from the clips in a single event.
    The project does not duplicate the footage that is stored in the Event, it just references it.
    A project is really a text file that is a recipe for building a movie. The recipe is executed when you "Share" or render your movie.
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    "Look in Event XYZ and grab frames 1 through 200 from the third clip.
    Add an audio track from iTunes, and mute the audio track from the Event.
    Add a title that says this or that.
    Apply some color correction in these parameters.
    Now look at Event QPR and grab the second and third clips, but trim off the last 10 frames."
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    Hope this helps.
    If you want to share multiple movies from an Event, you just create multiple projects that reference the event. Choose the frames you need by dragging and dropping. And then share the projects.
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  • Unable to "Split Event before selected clip"

    First... I've read the other two threads that I could find by searching these forums and the recommendations there didn't help.
    I have several large DV (avi) files that I imported previously from a camera. I imported them (one at a time) into iMovie 08 - each tape/avi file as a separate "event". As you can probably guess, the tapes/event were all imported as a single large clip each. I then split the large clips into separate clips by removing/rejecting a small amount of video between clips that I wanted to separate.
    So far so good. Now I have 1 event for each 'tape' still and a bunch of separate clips within each 'event'. Now what I want to do is separate out each of the individual clips into separate events.
    I've selected many different clips (the first, the last, several in between...) by right-clicking and selecting "select entire clip" (which it does) but the File>Split Event Before Selected Clip menu item is ALWAYS grayed out and will not let me do it.
    Why?
    I imported some new video (AVCHD) from a new canon hf10 and it allowed me to use this functionality just fine.
    Is there something about the avi/dv file format that won't allow you to split events into multiple events?
    From everything I've read, this appears to be a bug in iMovie 08 as everything seems to point to this supposedly working when doing what I've done here...
    HELP!
    TIA.

    Believe the problem is caused by you trying to split a single clip into two events, all work done in imovie is non destructive.
    I suspect the easiest workaround would be to split the event clip in QT.

  • IMovie 08: Split Event Before Selected Clip

    Hi,
    I select the clip that I want to split at but when I go to the File menu "Split Event Before Selected Clip" remains disabled, what else am I missing?
    Thank you...

    No experience with 08, but with 09, the "Split event ..." item is not available if the event is comprised of only a single clip. You must first (1) select a single frame where you want the clip to be split, then second (2) throw the rejected clips into the trash (which can be slow, depending upon event length). Only then can you split the event clips. Silly.
    If you have multiple splits in an event, perform step (1) at all desired locations first, then do step (2).

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    I have tried to slit and event but it don't matter which event i choose the option is never highlighted.
    I have clicked and dragged over an area of my event which is in the middle then go to file>Slit event before selected clip. but it is never highlighted or the option to merge events. Can some one please give me a little guidance i have followed the imove tutorial but it is still the same. do i need to reinstall Imovie.

    If you only have one clip, you cannot split the event in imovie. You can only split the event between two clips.
    If you have one long clip that you want to split, or if you want to split the event in the middle of a clip, I would recommend that you do this with MPEG Streamclip, which is free.

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