Split event before clip is greyed out

I can't split event before a clip and I can't merge because it is greyed out. I am highlighting in the events pane. I am completely updated. I have rebooted. I am using imovie8. I am new to this and thought having a mac was going to be so easy. So far, I have had to troubleshoot just above everything I do before getting ahead. It's getting a little old. Can anyone help?

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.

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"split event before clip" is not available

I have selected a section of my video in event library, however, the "split event before clip" is not available. Anybody know why?

This command is only available if your Event has more than one clip. It will split the Event between two clips.
If you are not sure how many clips are in your Event, move the Thumbnail slider to the right until you get a single thumbnail per clip.

Split event before clip?

Hi gang,
I finally updated my iMovie library to v10.0.6. I imported a bunch of video, and realized that it lumped all the different days into one new event. Not sure where the different days = different events feature went. In any case, I would like to split this large event that spans about a month worth of video into smaller events. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that function. In previous versions there used to be a "Split Event before Selected Clip" option. I can't find a similar function in the new iMovie. Is this feature gone, or has it been replaced by a different workflow?
Cheers!

Hi Phil McFarlane,
From what I understand, it sounds like you would like to split your iMovie event. To complete this task, please use the information in the attached link. Please let me know if I have misunderstood your situation.
Merge or split events - iPhoto Help
Best regards,
Joe

IMove 9... Project cannot locate clips after I chose "Split Event Before Clip." Help please!

iMovie 9; chose "Spit Event Before Clip." Project now cannot locate Event clips for that Project. All Events and Clips are on an extenal HD. All I see are !-points for all clips in the Project. Help!
I noticed another Event folder for the same clips so I "Merged" them. Still nothing. I've had nothing but problems with the waaay overdue project. I really need some help, please!
gb

I'd even gladly pay someone to walk me through this on the phone! I'm really desperate at this point!
gb

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.
For example the Project file might say
"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."
Etc.
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.
No need to get QuickTime Pro involved.

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.

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.

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!

You should start by having a read of the online manuals and correct forums.
This forum is for iOS (iPads and iPhones).
There are plenty of great resources on the Apple website,
but try to search for iMovie Mac.

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).

Make Independent Clip is greyed out

With many of my clips, Make Independent Clip is greyed out, and I can't figure out why. Please help, and thank you!

select a clip in the timeline or the browser and hit command-9 and tell us what codec (also called compressor) , frame rate etc If you're material is not in a fcp friendly format, that may be the problem. I also know that you can only use this command in certain circumstances. Had to do it a week or so ago and it took a little fooling til the option was available.

Clip options greyed out in iMovie 11

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Thank you.
I tried to drag one event into another event but was unable to do so. The event that I tried to move into a second one would only move to another position in the event columnn, but it would not merge into another one.

Merge Clips is greyed out

I shot video on Canon 5D, converted to ProRes and imported into FCP 7. Audio was recorded separately on a JVC GY-HM100U (lens shut, so no video footage just sound) and imported into FCP. I've marked in on video and audio clips to merge them, but the merge clips button is greyed out. The clips are in the browser window. I've tried dragging them into the timeline and merging them there. Merge Clips is still greyed out.
Help please!
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Video- 44.1KHZ

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Split Events Into Clips

I'm importing DV video into iMovie that is recovered from a reformatted drive, and all of the original camera info like dates and such are gone. The video is intact with sound; however, iMovie cannot tell when the camera goes on and off, and each file is imported into one big clip. Some parts of the video should be separated into separate events, as they are not related, and I cannot find a way to split the event.
Any suggestions? The files are .dv, and I don't really want to resort to Quicktime to separate the video to organize it.

I had the same "one big clip" issue when importing old 8mm/Hi8 via a Sony camcorder last weekend. I couldn't split events because there was only "one" clip to work with. Our local Apple store showed me another way that should work for you, too:
1. Locate where two scenes change using the little red vertical line.
2. Click in that area and shrink the yellow editing frame down to its minimum size (I was able to get it down to 0.1 seconds or about three frames worth).
3. Delete that short piece and the clip should be split there.
After I went through my imports doing that, it was easy to use the "Split events" function to rearrange everything.
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Split event before clip is greyed out

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