Moving clips between movies

What's the best method to split an iMovie in 2 or move clips from one movie to another? I've tried 3 methods which sort of work but I was wondering if there's a more efficient method.
1. Copy entire movie and delete unwanted footage from each copy. This can be slow with large projects and uses a lot of disk space.
2. Create a new (empty) movie. Quit iMovie. Open each movie (show package contents) and drag the clips from one to the other. This works but iMovie will warn you about missing/added clips.
3. Open first (large) movie. Create a second (empty) movie. Drag clips from the first to the second then delete them from the first. This works best for moving a few clips.
Eric

Welcome to discussions!
iMovie pastes across multiple projects
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5023.shtml
How to split a project in two
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5003.shtml
Sue

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In the FCPX manual, it states that you can move clips between events by just clicking and dragging a clip from one event to another. It also says that doing the same thing with the option key down will copy clips to the other event.
However, I've noticed that dragging a clip to another event just makes a copy of the clip. It's kinda annoying. Any workaround?

I'm seeing odd behaviour with this too.
Imported a tape which contained 3 separate days footage of different activities.
These were imported to my Movies folder in Home directory.
I created 2 new events and tried moving the content as per manual instructions for content on same drive but I only ended up with copies or a freeze due to a non-updating background activity (the file transfer).
Ended up with multiple copies of the same clips in different events on the same drive, some events listing the clips several times but only a single physical clip when viewed in Finder.
I managed to move a single clip successfully but for the life of me not sure why that worked - maybe because it was a single clip not a group?
This is very disconcerting behaviour when you're trying to organise content.
AC

Moving clips between projects, without rendering them

Is this possible? I work on a Macbook Pro, using CS4 production premium. How can I move clips between projects in PP CS4?
I KNOW there's a way. Just can't figure it out.
Thanks!

The easiest, IMO, is to Open your source Project and remove everything that will not be needed. Do a Save_As. Import that Save_As Project into your new one. Be sure to then twirl open the Bins, and Dbl-click on the Save_As Project's Timeline.
Hunt
PS I also go to Project and choose Delete Unused (or similar syntax) to clean things up for the Save_As.
Message was edited by: the_wine_snob Added PS

Moving clips between bins

I am finding media management in prelude a real pain.
After ingesting my H264 head cam material, I often need to sort and move the rushes into appropriate bins.
I find this takes ages with with Prelude CC 3.1 why?
I also have to often start new (monthly) projects because of the long delay opening old (large) projects.
Is there a way to open project without it taking ages looking for all of the media therein referenced?
As I have many projects for this year, how can I do a search through several? Is there any way of combining or referencing other projects, or having 2 open at a time to move clips between?
Steve

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no one with the same problem?

Moving clips between computers

I have clips on my computer in iMovie that I want to transfer to my daughters computer (both are fairly recent Macs running 10.8.2) so that she can use them in an iMovie project. How do I best do this? Do I need to put them into a project first? Am I best off using an external drive for the transfer (as opposed to Wi-Fi)? Thanks for any advice!
Dan

Hi
I think You can connect via Wi-Fi - but read my (general) note on this.
Moving Event's and Project's
Connection - Either connect one Mac in Target mode to the other via FireWire. Or use an external hard disk !
(Target-Mode - Start one Mac e.g. laptop - BUT keep T-key down during full up-start - Now a FW-symbol is jumping around the screen and it will work as an external hard disk when connected to the other Mac)
A. The External Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work for Video. UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things but not for Video whatever program is used (iMovie or FinalCut)
B. Should be a FireWire one as USB/USB2 performs badly to me and especially when filling up
C. Do never Move or Alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - as this will result in iMovie losing connections to them and repair can be anything from hard to impossibly
D. Moving and Copying must be done within iMovie application and Events to Events - and - Project's to Project's.
E. Moving Project's to Event's - Do not work for me - I have to export project as a QuickTime movie then Import this into Events.
Event's window can show two faces
Like this
or like this
from one hard disk Event - You can move it to the other hard disk
You can not (at least not me) move Event to Project or other way around only
Event to Event and Project to Project
Yours Bengt W

Moving clips between events crashes FCPX every time...

I'm trying to move clips from one event to another. I'm duplicating the clip first, and then I try to drag the duplicate of the clip to another event. Every time I do this, FCPX crashes.
Is this the right way to move clips? If not, how do I properly move clips from one event to another? What could be causing FCPX to crash every time? (I've tried different clips in different projects, and it still always crashes.)

Hi Russ--
Yes, I tried his suggestion to use Organize Event. I don't think it helped.
I have a feeling your second question is probably just as if not more relevant. I tend to have almost everything in one project coming from the event it is associated with. But then I have some credits or titles or something that might be in another event. I wanted to bring them into the associated event to keep everything organized well.
But it seems like maybe what I should do is give up on that and wait to do anything like this until the project is finished and I'm ready to move it. I guess maybe I could then use the option to move the project and referenced events when I move the finished project? But the other event referenced is also referenced by other projects, so I don't know if that is a good idea.
Or maybe I should be using File> Consolidate Project Media...? But I don't know exactly what effect that would have.
I had just decided that it seemed like something I could do manually, and, when that didn't work, I got hung up on why it wouldn't work that way. I wanted to know why it wouldn't work that way, and now I've kind of given up on figuring that out in favor of continuing work on the projects.

Moving projects between external hard drives lose clips

Sorry for the unclear subject line, but I really can't think of a quippy way to say what the problem is.
Short version--I moved project from external hard drive A to external hard drive B. Worked on A. Worked on B. Moved it back to A (still have copy on B). No longer works on A. Clips show up in the timeline, but on screen is white. Transitions, titles, audio don't work. Still works on B.
Ideas?
Long version--I'm using 10.3.9 on my old Powerbook. iMovie 6.0.3. I am using Lacie Porsche 250GB external and a Mercury Elite Pro 500 GB hard drives. When I started, the Lacie, which I was using for my speaking career videos, was NOT formatted for Mac OS Extended (Journaled). So, while working on another project, I had issues with the infamous Ken Burns bug with pictures.
After consulting with the experts here (thanks Karl), I determined that I must reformat. So, pain and anguish, I moved the various movies off of the Lacie (Drive A) to the Mercury (Drive B). On both, the movies worked fine--all transitions, everything. The Mercury was and is Mac OS Extended (but NOT Journaled).
So, I wipe the Lacie with Disk Utility so it is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Once finished, I begin the process of moving projects (3 in total) back to the Lacie. Two of the projects are completed works with transitions, audio file, titles and the like. One is just clips in the clip pane, none in the timeline. I moved them all at once.
When I did, I checked them before I would delete them off the Mercury. When I did, both of the completed projects loaded properly--the clips do show in the timeline. But, in the preview window, all I have is a blank white screen. When I play, nothing happens.
I have not erased anything, changed anything, thrown anything away--nothing. And, they still work perfectly on the Mercury (same computer, obviously).
This one really has me stumped. I am really irked that iMovie has apparently become such a messed up program. Worse, this has been out for some time now (I had not used it yet, but I got iLife last year some time). I can't believe there are all these issues all this time later and obviously Apple has done nothing or little to correct these problems. I consider iMovie a real flagship program to model the ease of use and blah blah blah that we all know concerning Apple.
OK, sorry for venting---anyone with any ideas? Did I mess up the drive when I wiped it? Is this merely the program? Something between the fact that the Mercury is NOT Journalled? Any help will, as always, be appreciated.

Thanks David---
The Permissions are the same for both, on both hard drives.
I have not repaired permissions on either.
I did shut down the computer last night and this AM, upon starting again, had the same problem.
I did attempt a few fixes--I moved the clips from the timeline back to the preview pane. I had one clip already there and it would play perfectly. When I did that, with a clip from the timeline and then moved it back, it would show up and play. But, upon hitting the next clip, it would stop playing at the first transition.
Some of the transitions are from a Third Party (Gee). Remember, though, they played perfectly fine from Drive B. I have not attempted, however, to put the Gee effects into iMovie 6. As I said earlier, I haven't used the program on my computer since the Fall. Now, using 6.0.3, I don't see my GeeThree effects anywhere, nor have I tried to put them in. But, from the Drive B (and originally in the drive A), the movie plays fine even though the added clips are not present for me to use in any new project.

Help! How do I trim clips to smaller size so I can move between movies?

Help! I am editing a wedding video with a lot of footage. If I try to clip out a very small part of the video, even if it's only 10 seconds long, it still stays the same size of the original clip - 5 gb! I can't create a video like this - I've already deleted everything off of my computer as it is just to make room for the clips. Please tell me there's a way to trim down clips so they're smaller in size so I can move between movies and edit this. I really appreciate your help - thank you!!

This has been answered in your duplicate post, but just to clarify:
Non-destructive editing is an important feature of iMovie.
iMovie preserves the entire copy of every clip you place into your movie in case you change your mind at a later stage.
So, if you have cut out one minute from a 45 minute clip, iMovie will have stored two complete copies of that clip. This is why is helps to set import as 3-5 minute clips rather than one huge chunk. As DV runs at 13GB per hour your project files can get very big.
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How do I move clips between projects?

Should be a simple enough task but, how do I move clips made in one project to another project?

clip media is not conained within a project per se, rather it is referenced by a project, so as long as the media is on the hard disc then it can be referenced by as many projects as you'd like.
you can open multiple projects simultaneously ... then to move clips between the projects you can just drag and drop between the various projects' bins, or copy and paste if you prefer.

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hello, all of a sudden i cannot move my clips between bins anymore. any idea why? thanks

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Inserting a clip between two clips

I'm trying to insert a clip between two clips yet still having everything from all V/A 1,2,3,4,etc. layers to move along with whatever clip is moved down the line. Everyone keep saying: Use the ctrl key! but all that does is indeed move some of it down but it cuts bits of the video in the process. I'm not sure how to solve this. I simply want to drag and drop an item between two clips and not cut or mess up any additional V layers.

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HI, I have multiple clips spread across 3 tracks. There are gaps between clips that I want to make shorter - but still leaving black or empty sections. I cannot find a way to move a clip to the left so that all clips on all lanes to the right (ie afterwards) move along with it whilst keeping their relative postions vertically.
I can see how to do this by selecting everything to the right but this would be incredibly tedious. I want to be able to, say, grab a clip on track 3 at 45secs, drag it to 43 secs and all the clips on tracks 1 and 2 and 3 etc also move 2 secs to the left.
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I have run some tests and still not getting the behaviour I want.
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Moving Clips More Precisely PrE 9

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