Rearranging clips in Event

When I import new video clips into my Event that I have named May 2013, the clips are not put in order. Sometimes it seems like they are randomly put in the Event section.
How can I have my videos put in chronological order like iPhoto puts my pictures in order? I know about "adjust time and date" under File, but that is a hassle to do for every clip. Can I just drag a clip into a different place with the other clips?

I import pictures and video with my Canon camera software. And then I import them into iPhoto and iMovie.
iPhoto seems to have no problem, it reads the camera's time stamp and arranges the pictures in order, but not iMovie? It seems the clips are added at the end in the Events. When you import a clip, is when it adds it at the end no matter the date. Maybe it's because of how I import through my Canon software first?
The problem is when I import several clips from a day or a few days, they are not put in chronological order. They are put in order of when you import the clips.

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I am making a very long and complex project.
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The project has tons of clips from tons of different events spanning over 10 years.
I want to add some still pics. I want the still pics to be inserted around the same time the video was taken (i.e. my pics are sorted by date and my video clips in events are also sorted by date).
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Is there a way to see the date of the clip being used in the Project???
(The events list the clip dates, but I have so many clips in the project, that I couldn't possibly find them all using the events view).
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Thanks.
Darn it.... I didn't realize this.
I put together a 20min project so far... it is composed of many many few second clips from probably over 100 different events spanning over 10 years.... now i want to add the still pics to it..... so I guess it is a little to late for this solution ;(. I probably should have added the stills during the time I added the video clips (since it would be hard to go back to see what events the videos clips in the project came from).
I like to put all the video clips in first and then add the still pics. Then add music last.
But your tip is good to know and thanks so much again!

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Can I rearrange clips using Icon View in the Media window? I thought I had read about doing it this way, but it doesn't seem to allow clips to be moved using the icons. (It works in list view but not icon view) Am I overlooking something or just doesn't work that way?
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I've been editing movies for decades (and shooting them too), have been doing digital video editing for at least a decade, and was even Director of Photography on an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Award nominated film, many, many years ago. I own many of his books, and rely on them often. Cannot make a stronger rec. Yeah, "that guy" knows his "stuff."
Hunt

Dragging movie clip from Event pane to Project pane

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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.
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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.
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I'm using Premiere 9 and I'm struggling to find an efficient way to rearrange clips. It seems like in both the scene view and timeline view if you have MANY (I have about 100) clips you can't see all the clips a once. I don't want to scroll (and scroll and scroll) left and right. Is there anyway to show multiple rows (in either timeline or scene)? I don't need to see the monitor pane or the organize pane. Ideally, I like to see the entire work area filled with MULTIPLE rows of the screen view.

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Quality issue when moving clips from events to project

When I drags clips or parts of clips from events to my project, the quality drops significantly (blocking).
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Apologies for bumping this again, but I'm getting the same issue and I'm wondering if it's the original HD files that are incompatible in imovie. It's odd that only a few of us are reporting it.
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(I looked in iMovie Help menu but found no help.)
I recently did a file transfer from my Sanyo HD2000A which was a large accumulation of clips taken since last spring 2010. This was my first upload.
Now I have a lot of clips organized by date by iMovie '11. There are various categories of these clips, and one of them is +"Ducks in my back yard swimming pool."+ Another is a huge number of clips taken over time of three baby sparrows in the nest outside my window. It is a progression of how they are fed by their parents and how they grow and leave.
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Lorna, I think I understand better now what you are talking about.
So on any one clip, it will be ducks, or sparrows, but not both.
You can create a folder in the Event Library called Ducks and another folder called Sparrows. These must be in the Movies/iMovie Events folder on your internal drive, or they must be in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of an external drive.
Go through your current Event folders. Drag the duck clips to the duck folder. Drag the Sparrow clips to the Sparrow folder. I would do a MOVE, but if you have enough disk space, you could do this as a COPY until you are sure that all works as you intend.
The next time you open iMovie, it will generate thumbnails and cache for these new Duck and Sparrow events. The events will be placed in the Event Library in the month of the most recent clip, even though the clips may span several months.
If all goes well, you can delete the prior events. If there is footage still in them (that is not sparrows or ducks, for example), you could delete the thumbnails and cache folders and let iMovie regenerate thumbnails and cache after it opens.
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Previewing clips in Events pane do not play correctly in Preview Pane

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The external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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For existing events, in iMovie, click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK.
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Can not drag clips from events to a project

Help!
I create an event and import videos. I then select the section of videos I want (yellow box) and drag into a project.
Nothing happens the clip is not put into my project.
If i do the same but instead of trying to drag I push E the clips move into my project but do not show in the preview screen. The preview plays the videos in the events, the projects area has apparently become redundant.
I have completely removed and re-installed imovie. Reimported new movies to test (from iphone) with no luck. Repaired permissions in disk utility. Problem still there!
There are other threads with this problem but they seem pretty old, with no solution that has worked for me so thought it was best to start my own. I have a stack of footage waiting to be edited and really need to get this sorted quickly so any help, from anyone would be much appreciated.
iMovie11 | Mountain Lion | imac
Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 MB
Software OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)

Then I'm at a loss. See if You find help in this.
When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons
• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it/they and iMovie makes new and error free one's
• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair
• a codec is used that doesn't work
• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist
• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD
• preferences are wrong - Repair Preferences
• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)
• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video
( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )
• USB-flash-memories do not work
• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work
• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
• external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try
• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie
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