"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.

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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 Is this feature gone, or has it been replaced by a different workflow?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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.
Hope this is useful...
KWO

Description for Windows events 0 and 16 not available

In Acrobat Reader DC v7.20033, the descriptions for Windows 8.1 events 0 and 16 are not available. The application is throwing these events. I don't know if they are important. Please update the build so the descriptions are included.

Hi，
Windows Media Player 12 is compatible with Windows 7, other editions will be not compatible, so where did you download this WMP?
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to Media Feature, untick it, restart your PC, then go to the same place, re-tick this option, restart PC.
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Dbx events (sync, syncrtld, prog_new) not available from IDE?

I noticed that some "dbx events" seem to be missing when dbx runs in the Sunstudio IDE (I tried Studio Express 07/08). Specifically, the events sync, syncrtld and prog_new do not work. I tried with simple statements like
when sync { echo SYNC; }
in .dbxrc, and this has no effect when dbx loads an executable from the IDE. In contrast, from within commandline dbx, this works.
Is this intentional or some deliberate limitation or a bug? I sometimes used some of these events in the past, and this was quite handy.
D.Ruppert

Oh wow ... it's unexpected, even to me, so I'd classify it as a bug.
Although it's been this way since Workshop days (i.e. 15 years :-).
Here's what happens. IDE uses the 'debug' command to bring dbx to bear on
a new target. debug, by default clears all existing bpts, including those in
.dbxrc. 'debug -r' is designed for retaining bpts but that would conflict
with IDE's own retention mechanisms.
I added -perm flags to the when commands in .dbxrc and that did cause them
to be retained, but it also doubled them as the IDE resent them back to dbx.
Workaround: A mite awkward but perhaps creating them from the GUI might be best?
I'd also appreciate it if you filed a bug as described in
http://forums.sun.com/ann.jspa?annID=28
so it shows as an external request.

Trying to make a disc.img from an iMovie project get the mssage that some of the audio clips are not available. The clips still show as green bars in the project but do not play.

I successfully made a disc.img and then burned a DVD of the project but found an error in a title. Went back to the project, corrected the error, and tried to create a new disc.img but got the message that some of the audio tracks were unavailable. They still show as green bars in the project but do not play. Tried deleting and reinstalling them with no success. They do play in iTunes and in the iMovie editing pane
Thank you

inspired2apathy wrote:
... The goal is a ScrollPane that automatically wraps the text inside it. I've just about got it, but I have one thing that's not working. If I just put the JTextArea{s} in as the Editor, then you lose the any text that doesn't fit inside whatever the initial size was. Instead, I put the JTextAreas inside a JScrollPane which works fine, except that I still have to determine the size of the JScrollPane in advance. I would like to make each Editor/JScrollPane start out with just a single line of text and expand until it reaches a certain small number of lines.
... What am I missing?THE BASICS. See if this isn't what you are trying to do.
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
public class Test
public static void main(String[] args) {
    JTextArea ta = new JTextArea();
    ta.setLineWrap(true);
    ta.setWrapStyleWord(true);
    JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(ta);
    JFrame f = new JFrame();
    f.getContentPane().add(sp, "Center");
    f.setBounds(0, 0, 400, 300);
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation(f.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f.setVisible(true);
}OP, your code was too long and complicated for me to compile and run. However, aren't you forgetting the two simple methods <tt>JTextArea.setLineWrap()</tt> and <tt>JTextArea.setWrapStyleWord()</tt>? Furthermore, I absolutely see no need for you to extend SWING components for demonstration this simple -- that is, if I understand your problem correctly.

Can you turn off optimization while splitting events?

I want to move all my many thousands of iPhoto clips down to intermix with my other clips stored on an external drive. All seemed well, I drug them down like the apple tech told me to, but they appeared in a single event, which is bad enough, and the sound is missing, which also *****, but I've found that if I split the EVENTS back into their original date periods the sound comes back. (And I have to do that anyway so they will sort/intermix properly in the event area anyway which was my original goal.)
The PROBLEM is that every time I choose "split event before clip", it takes a minute or so for imovie to OPTIMIZE MOVIES after splitting the event. Since I'm really not planning on doing anything other than splitting these **** events for the next month or so, is there any way to turn that feature off for a while?
For that matter is there any way to speed this process up? Any way at all? All the movies are still in iPhoto, if there was a better way to do it I would. I would just export them and import them directly, but then I lose all the original dates (Though I'm starting to wonder if that would be faster.) I would be willing to buy external software if that would help.
And yes, I realize I could just drag them all down event by event, but that would take longer, because I believe I have to first create an event to drag them into. If that is incorrect let me know. But at least on my computer, creating the event takes just as long as splitting the event, so this method saves me half the time.
It seems like there has got to be a better way to do this.
Or is there any way to split at multiple points?

Flip the mute switch.

Splitting One Large clip in Event Library

I recently had some 8mm film transferred to digital. I found some Christmas' that were taken when I was a kid. This segment was on 11 minute stream of multiple Christmas' together. When I imported the AVI that I received back, it naturally was on long clip. What I would like to do is split these into multiple events (I think I can remember when each year was, getting old you know )
Everything I have read seems that it should work, like:
Place the scan to where I want to split, then press Command-Shift-S, but all I get is a beep.
I select the clip I want to make into one event and tried copying, but no paste. Tried moving, but it wants to move the whole clip.
I tried selecting the next year and do the File | Split Event before Selected Clip, but it is grayed out.
I'm at a loss for what to do, so if anyone knows the "tricks" to do this, please help.
Larry

I use MPEG Streamclip for this, and it is free. QuickTime Pro also works great.
Instructions for MPEG Streamclip
1) Download and install MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5 (free).
3) Start MPEG Streamclip
4) Drag your 11 minute clip into the MPEG Streamclip window.
(If you don't know where it is, right-click on the clip in iMovie and select "Reveal in Finder"
5) If you want to split a long clip into smaller clips, you can make smaller clips by using MPEG Streamclip. Move the cursor to the "in" point of the clip, and press i. Move the cursor to the "Out" point of the clip, and press o. Then do steps 5 and 6 and repeat until you have done this for all clips you want.
6) Use FILE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME to convert the files to Apple Intermediate Codec (or h.264 if you prefer)
7) Optional: If you know the date and or time of the footage, name your file
clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss
(let mpeg streamclip provide the extension). This will provide metadata that iMovie will use to put the event in the right year and month.
8) Save the resulting file in a place where you can find it, like your Desktop.
9) Open iMovie.
10) In iMovie, choose FILE/IMPORT/Movies... and choose the file you saved in steps 5,6,7. You can import several clips at once if you want.
11) iMovie will generate thumbnails and you can edit.

"split event before clip" is not available

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