Split up of events into clips, imported from VHS cassettes

I have been trying to split up events which I imported from different video cassettes, they import in one big clip into one event, but the thing is I need to split up this event into several independant events, I dont seem to be able to find a solution,
Bye for now, Peter

I am assuming that once you have split up your Event you will create a Project for each of them in order to do your editing etc.
What you could do is create several Projects from the one Event, thereby achieving, hopefully, the same thing.
Try this.
From your Event create new Project ie File -- New Project.You could call this Project 1.
At top of screen select iMovie then down to Preferences.Select the Browser tab and click on "Clicking in Events Browser selects entire clip " Close the Imovie Preferences.
Click on your big clip in your Event and a yellow box will surround this whole clip .You should see that the left and right sides of this yellow box have what look like small loops or handles. Click and hold down on the handles and move the sides (left or right ) to the position where you want to start and finish a particular section.You can view these positions on your screen as you move left or right, let go of mouse when in wanted position.
You might want to expand your clip using the slider at bottom right of the Event before doing this to give you more visibility and control.
When you have positioned the left and right handles to your liking, ( covering say the first 20 minutes of your Event ) click in the yellow box, hold down and drag to your project.
Now create a new project--- Project 2 and repeat the above for the next section of your Event, and so on untill you have covered your entire Event.
If you wanted to break up your Event into say 5 sections, you have 1Event but 5 Projects.( Instead of 5 Events and 5 Projects)
Each Project can be edited as you wish.
Moving the handles left and right takes a bit of getting used to at first but you will get the hang of it quite quickly.
Hope this achieves what you were trying to get to.

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