Importing video and automatic new clips

When I import video from my camera, iMovie automatically creates a new clip when it senses a point where the taping had been stopped and restarted. Is there a way to over-ride that feature so I get one continuous clip?

Hi
Yes and No
If You mean - that the import is divided in separate clips according to scene
shootings - then in iMovie pref You only unselect - import as individual clips.
If You mean that the movie divides because of broken timecode on Your tape
eg. by unloding tape from time to time - or - not using "End Searce" when
viewed Your tape so that the last scene will cont. with next shooting.
- No not as standard
To do this the Time-code has to be mended. To do this one has to:
• import the material into iMovie
• put a new tape into Camera (this tape should be pre-recorded with just anything
eg. a wall to get a continuous time-code
• export back to Camera
• Use this new tape with "import as individual clips" - still turned off
Camera to Camera is an alt. (still to a pre-recorded tape)
Yours Bengt W

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