IMovie 08 - Deleting rejected clips in Event

I've rejected some movie clips in iMovie 08 (red bar shown), but when I click the button to move these to the trash, no action occurs. Any suggestions? -Don

i get spinning wheel that does not stop....not even after hours. I manually shut down, and it deletes the entire project. I cant find a good solution anywhere to this.

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When i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

when i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

See this iMovie Help topic on how to delete rejected clips:
Delete unwanted video clips from an Event -
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6a93f
John

Unable to delete rejected clips

When I click on "Move Rejected to Trash" it says "Unable to delete rejected clips." The clips are not from any event, as they are clips from iPhoto Videos. I've searched around the Discussions but couldn't find an answer. Anyone have any insight?
Thanks!

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

"Unabe to delete rejected clips"?

...tried "moving rejected clips to trash...
...got Error message...
"Unabe to delete rejected clips:
The operation could not be completed.Error writing file: /Users/donrex/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Family 56/iMovie Thumbnails/clip-135-02-05 05;27;15-1"
I now have 2 Event Libraries with problems.
On one, the Project Library shows a triangle symbol with a exclamation sign, and, won't show clips in the Preview screen. On another, much of the Event now has grayed clips.
I also experienced the unplanned deletion of some clips, and, some clips being combined with another clip.
Any help?
Don

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

Error message when trying to delete rejected clips

When I try to delete the rejected clips in some projects (from the event panel) I get the following error message:
"The operation could not be completed. Error writing file: /Users/lee/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/imovie-001/04dx 01-1.mov"
This only occurs with certain imported movie clips. Other imported clips work as expected when I move the rejected portions to the trash.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

Just a suggestion but I have found on WIn 7 that showing a pdf in the
Preview view can make win think the file is open and locked for editing. The
little icon on the taskbar makes it easier to turn the preview on and off. I
always check my open explorer windows now when I get messages like that and
it usually clears it up. Hope it works foryou.
Jean Notte
[email protected]

I can't delete rejected files from events!!

Just started working with iMovie. I completed editing my first event (i.e. rejecting, marking favorites, etc.) and created a project. But I'm unable to delete the rejected files from the event...I hit the button at the top and nothing happens, the rejected files remain. The option to delete under the FILE menu isn't highlighted. Only the SPACE SAVER option is highlighted. Tried everything, but nothing happens. My rejected clips remain. What am I missing??

No, unfortunately that is not the case. They are clips imported directly from my Canon HV30 camcorder into iMovie 08. This morning I simplified the procedure to see what would happen. I downloaded half a soccer game, went through it immediately, rejecting all portions that were out-of-bound balls, etc., and then tried to "Move Rejected Clips to Trash." These clips have been manipulated no other way. I haven't even started a project related to them. The progress bar showed activity until it reached the end (about 25 minutes for 20 minutes of rejected clips). Then the beach ball spun for about twenty minutes. Eventually the ball was replaced by the pointer, but moving the mouse made the beach ball reappear. This continued for another twenty minutes or more, with the beach ball returning to the pointer over and over. (It took all of the patience I could muster to sit and watch this time waster, but I was afraid that if I left and didn't keep moving the pointer so that it returned to the beach ball, nothing would be happening in my absence! This is probably what happened when I waited for hours away from the computer yesterday.) The upshot is that the window finally closed and the clips appeared in the trash can. I was able to empty the trash this time, because I had no project associated with the clips. My experience leads me to these conclusions:
1. It is best to delete footage you know you aren't going to use before you ever begin a project.
2. Deleting clips is a lengthy process, probably roughly the same amount of time or more that it took for importing the original footage, at least on my G-5.
3. Do NOT use Force Quit when the beach ball spins forever after using Space Saver! I most definitely experienced *completely unrelated clips* being put in the trash by doing this! On two separate occasions! In case you are wondering why I would do something stupid twice, I figured out how to retrieve the clips from the trash and put them back in their proper folders, so I took the risk the second time in the name of science. I couldn't believe it could happen, but it did. I haven't yet tested whether this is a glitch related to Force Quit or Space Saver because I haven't had the time to watch the spinning ball of death for hours again. But until I figure out which one is responsible, I won't be using Space Saver either.
4. This may seem like overkill to those of you who have oodles of projects, but I will always either check my projects before I empty the trash or go through the trash to make sure there are no clips with dates that shouldn't be deleted.
5. Learn how to read the label on the clips being trashed. If you find a project with the caution exclamation and you haven't yet emptied the trash, look for the clip in the trash. It will be in an "iMovie temporary folder." Open the folder and drag the clip back into its correct event folder and replace the thumbnail in the corresponding thumbnail folder and all will be well.
I guess there is irony in all of this: When I first began using iMovie, I thought it was a miracle that it could manipulate such huge HD video files. Then when it doesn't function just right, I feel it is a travesty. Its all good, if not perfect.
Thanks, rloo, for trying to help.

Titles or Music in Project Shift when deleting unused clips from Event

When deleting unused clips from an Event ("Move Event to Trash | Delete Unused") the Titles and/or the Music / Voiceover shifts in time within the project built from clips in that Event. Sometimes, the music slides later, so instead of starting at the beginning of the project, it's slid over by 20 or so. Other times, the music stayed anchored, but the titles moved to later times. In some cases, the titles not only moved, but streched in time, so that a 5 second title placed at 10 seconds into the project, became a 47 second title, starting 35 seconds into the project! This has happened to four projects and I just verified again as part of this posting that it is still an issue. Easy enough to slide the clips and music back where they belong but now it says "Itunes" and "YouTube" is out of date; they are not - it's iMovie that got confused.

You're performing a 'Ripple delete' by using the DEL key. Use the DELETE key to perform a 'Lift delete'. The DELETE key is located just above the backslash key.
-DH

Having difficulties deleting rejected clips.

If I press 'Move Rejected to Trash', half the time nothing will happen at all.
If I'm lucky (whatever type of luck you'd consider this), it will go through what looks like the process in which the clips get moved to the Trash bin (you know, it says they upload into the Trash bin, when they don't).
How can I fix this?
Also, is there a way to move individual clips into the Trash bin?

I just posted pretty much the same thing elsewhere on the Apple Boards and got no replies. Rather than start a new thread, I decided to just tack on and paste what I posted on the other forum. This appears to be a fairly common problem. Yet, no one seems to have an answer, and Apple either isn't aware of it or just hasn't fixed it (I can't believe it's the latter).
Anyway, here's what I posted:
To be brief -- I am unable to move rejected clips to the trash with iMovie 08. I am 99% sure I'm doing everything correctly. The option to do so is dimmed, and clicking on the Move Rejected To Trash button does nothing.
I saw several posts about this problem from a couple of years ago, but no one offered a solution. I haven't seen this issue discussed since 2008, which I don't understand. The problem was never solved in any of the threads I read. It appears to be a bug in the software. Does anyone know if there's a work-around for this? Has this problem been fixed with iMovie 09?
I just find it hard to believe that a bug of this magnitude would go uncorrected by Apple. I could save a lot of disk space if this would work as it's supposed to.
Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions.

IMovie deletes my projects and event when importing another video!!!

I was working on an iMovie project and was just importing a file and it did not import, but then iMovie deleted all my projects and events. I then found the projects and events saved in Finder but they will not open. When I clicked on them it opened iMoviebut will not open the projects. How do I fix this and get my projects and events back on iMovie?

I would try trashing your Preferences files. For full instructions, see this link.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4061

Help! iMovie deleted many clips during a "split event" procedure.

Please help. I realized that my 2004 "event" had far too many clips in it and decided to split the event. (Trying to remedy a poor organizational system). The split appeared to work fine, creating a new event 2004 1 that I assumed had my clips in it. They weren't there, or in the original event. Worse, other clips from that event were also missing. I have restarted the computer, still not there. And yes, I did check to be sure I was viewing ALL clips, not just favorites etc.
I do have a backup, but after much reorganizing it is just about impossible for me to figure out which clips disappeared. I had just this week given up on using iPhoto for my old 1000+ 30 second clips from my digital camera and had imported them directly into iMovie. I had also just imported all my old video footage from my nonHD camera. And of course, I hadn't re-backed up yet, but I had deleted them from iPhoto. (Was going to backup tonight to my new drive I bought for that purpose...)
Any suggestions?

Thank you. I tried that and the actual folders match what shows in iMovie. I'm backing up now, but when I'm done I'll just reimport from my older backup and tapes and try to figure out what's missing.
What I'm really concerned about, is does iMovie just arbitrarily make things disappear often? How do I know there aren't other things from other events that are missing? Obviously right now I can do a file count, but once I actually start working with the clips and deleting the bad ones etc. how can I know if things are suddenly missing? (I have over a thousand clips so it isn't obvious.) These are baby clips which are precious to me...
In case it matters, just had my mac in for full diagnostic and it's fine. The hard drive is new and tests fine. Permissions on my C drive HAVE been being corrupted during file imports from my old Sony digital8, possibly that caused the original problem? I will be sure to check permissions before opening iMovie from now on.

Deleting Rejected Clip Deletes Entire Library

Hello,
I rejected parts of clips in FCP X and changed the view to "show Rejected" and selected then and hit command+d to move them to the trash. The only problem is that when I switched the view to "show all" everything was gone. I tested it again by selecting just a small clip from the event and pressing command+d. It deleted the entire event again. Do you know what is going wrong?
Also, the first time I opened FCP X, my Western Digital Passport external hard drive showed up in the Event Library and I was able to save an event there. The next time I opened FCP X up, the hard drive was gone from the list and my whole project was red and disconnected. I opened iMovie and the events I had on my Passport showed up and were working fine. Is there just a setting I need to change? I have the hd formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Thanks for the help!
Dan

which brings me to propose a (very annoying, yet usable) workaround ...
- from iTunes you want to rename an album (that would cause the old folder to be removed, and accidentally cause more unwanted deletions)
- go into Finder, and in the folder to be renamed, add a dummy file (like, duplicating one of the songs);
- go into iTunes, and perform the renaming operation
- the dummy file is not visible in iTunes, hence it will not be deleted;
- because of the additional dummy file, the directory will not be empty, and therefore will not be deleted;
- go again into Finder, and manually delete the now useless folder with dummy file as the only remaining file;

Deleting unused clips in Events

I'd like to get rid of all video not used in each iMovie 09' video I've made but find 'Space Saver' very unclear.
Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Mike

Mark them as Rejected, then use Space Saver to move them to the Trash, then empty the Trash

Move rejected clips to trash?

I have really large clip sizes, from 1-10 minutes long, that are taking up massive amounts of space on my hd, but I only need 10-20 seconds of each clip. The vast majority of my material ends up getting Rejected.
I have read that there is an option to Move Rejected Files to Trash, which will delete the unwanted material but preserve the other stuff. I cannot seem to find this option: it does not appear in the Browser when viewing rejected files. I read that I can go to File>Move Rejected Clips to Trash, however this option does not appear in my File menu.
What am I doing wrong? Is this ability no longer enabled? I am on a MacBook Pro using the 2013 iMovie that shipped with my laptop. Thanks for any help.

Hey crazyshannon,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like youwant to delete rejected clips. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
iMovie '11: Delete unwanted video clips from an Event
To delete video clips permanently from your Event Library:
In the Event Library, click to select the Event you want to delete video from.
In the Event browser, select the frames or clips you want to remove from the Event, and then press Delete or click the Reject button (shown below) in the iMovie toolbar.
(The Reject button also has a small “x” if you have Advanced Tools turned on.)
If you’ve chosen All Clips from the Show pop-up menu (shown below), which appears below the Event browser, a red line appears across the top of the rejected frames.
If you’ve chosen Favorites Only or “Favorites and Unmarked,” the rejected clips disappear from view.
Choose File > “Move Rejected Clips to Trash.”
All the clips that are currently marked as “rejected” in any Event or project are queued to move to the Trash. This includes clips you may have marked previously, not only those you just rejected.
In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:
If you’re confident you know which clips you’ve previously rejected and you want to delete all of them, click “Move to Trash.”
The video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
If you want to review the clips that you’ve marked for deletion, click View Rejected Clips.
The Event browser shows just the rejected clips in the selected Event. Select any clips that you don’t want to delete, and then click the Unmark button.
To delete the rejected clips, click the “Move Rejected to Trash” button (A, below) in the upper-right corner of the Rejected Clips window.
Click the “Move to Trash” button in the dialog that appears; the video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Can't delete events, or rejected clips, and now hangs on startup

I am using, as far as I know, the latest version 7.1.1. I first started having problems when I couldn't delete a couple of events. I them selected some clips to be rejected, and it marked them appropriately with the red bar. However, it will not allow me to delete these rejected clips. Now the problems are getting worse and I cannot even get '08 to start with hanging up and then I must force it to quit.
I should mention that I between having all these issues I have installed iMovie HD and been using that but for ENTIRELY different clips etc. I have not been sharing things back and forth. HD seems to be working as it should.
I am new to Mac', about 3 months now, and have been using iMovie'08 for a few weeks and found it to be very good. I started to have some problems and found the whole debate about iMovie '08 compared to iMovie HD. All that aside, although I can see how HD has better features than '08, can someone point me in the right direction to get things up and running again.
Thanks very much.

Sorry, I should have added this error message that I get when trying to move the rejected clips to the trash:
The operation could not be completed. * -[NSPlaceholderMutableDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:]: number of objects (0) not equal to number of keys (4)
Perhaps this will help someone with nailing down what the issue is.
Thanks again.

Trouble deleting only rejected clips after imovie update

When i send rejected clips to the trash, it pulls more of the original video with it. How can i keep this from happening? Only started with the new Mavericks update.

I've seen one suggestion relating to Revealing the Clip in the Finder. Try this:
Go to the Reject Clips by clicking on the pulldown menu at the bottom where it says Show: (choose Rejected Clips Only). Then <CTRL> click on on of the red striped thumbnails choose Reveal in Finder. When the Finder window launches, your clip will be highlighted. Select it and drag it to the trash.
Quit iMovie, then relaunch it and go back to the Show: (Rejected Clips Only) see if that clip is now missing from the list of Rejected Clips. If this works and your Project file still plays back successfully I would say it's safe to continue deleting as needed. But if you have some problems and the Project has been affected there might be another reason you cannot delete the clips.
iPhoto Videos are not deletable in the traditional iMovie Rejected Clips kind of way. They are under full control and jurisdiciton of iPhoto. And as a result, iMovie is not allowed to do anything other than 'copy' or re-use them in a Project. Deletion of iPhoto Videos in iMovie will not work. So your only real option is to try deleting them from iPhoto instead. So just be aware of where your video clips are located in the iMovie Event Library and everything should be OK.

IMovie 08 - Deleting rejected clips in Event

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