[Jim Paradise]

I'd like to save some hard drive space when I split a section of video by deleting the second part of the split, but iMovie always retains the full video. Obviously the design is for you to be able to go back and use the full clip if you mess up, but there are many clips that I'll split where I have no need for retaining the part second half of a split clip and don't want that cached video in the first section of the clip. So, is it possible to split video clips in iMovie 5 without retaining all of the original video clip?

[Randman]

Yes, you can use the marker function which will break the video into parts. Trash the parts you don't want and empty the iMovie trash.

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by Randman

Yes, you can use the marker function which will break the video into parts. Trash the parts you don't want and empty the iMovie trash.

Please pardon my ignorance, but how do I do that? The only options I see that are available under Markers in the menu are Add Bookmark and Add Chapter Marker.

[PacHead]

Originally Posted by Jim Paradise

Please pardon my ignorance, but how do I do that? The only options I see that are available under Markers in the menu are Add Bookmark and Add Chapter Marker.

APPLE + T

that will split your clip (according to where the pointer/marker is in the clip)

Take the unwanted part of the clip, and hit delete..

It is now in the trash, but not deleted yet.

Click on the trash in imovie and delete it for good.

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by PacHead

APPLE + T

that will split your clip (according to where the pointer/marker is in the clip)

Take the unwanted part of the clip, and hit delete..

It is now in the trash, but not deleted yet.

Click on the trash in imovie and delete it for good.

Ah, that's what I've been doing. However, I can still take the end of the first clip, drag it and expand it to reveal the part that I clipped. That's the problem.

[PacHead]

Originally Posted by Jim Paradise

Ah, that's what I've been doing. However, I can still take the end of the first clip, drag it and expand it to reveal the part that I clipped. That's the problem.

Yeah, you're absolutely right, I never noticed that before. I just took a clip in imovie and split it in 2. I trashed the second part, but I can still expand the first part to reveal the part I just trashed.

Perhaps it's not possible to do this then in imovie ? Maybe having a huge drive or drives is the only solution.

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by PacHead

Yeah, you're absolutely right, I never noticed that before. I just took a clip in imovie and split it in 2. I trashed the second part, but I can still expand the first part to reveal the part I just trashed.

Perhaps it's not possible to do this then in imovie ? Maybe having a huge drive or drives is the only solution.

I've tried cutting the film by editing it in the clipboard, but still no luck. Seems large drives are the only solution...

[Jim Paradise]

Hmm, another question I have is how to place text into the middle of a clip. I can place text at the beginning of a clip, but I can't find a way to place text into a clip if, for example, the clip is one minute long and I want the text to appear at 30 seconds into the clip and not the beginning. There has to be a way to be able to do this?

*edit* The solution I've come up with is to split the clip and insert the text into the beginning of the second clip, but this seems to be a roundabout way of doing this.

[analogika]

It's called non-destructive editing, folks.

[PacHead]

Originally Posted by analogika

It's called non-destructive editing, folks.

I understand that part, but what is the point of the trash in imovie then ?

"Are you sure you want to permanently delete all items in Trash ?"

"You will not be able to restore, revert, etc. etc. "

Sounds like a huge bug or mistake to me. The trash does not work in imovie, and it doesn't do what it says it's going to do.

[analogika]

Not really, though I understand what you're saying.

what's happening is that all the clips you've cut, edited, adjusted, added titles or fades or whatever to, all that *work* is GONE once you delete the stuff in the Trash.

What needs to be communicated, is that any and all work and editing you do is basically done on a COPY of the source material.

Same as how you can delete audio regions at will in Logic, or can edit a photo in iPhoto to your heart's content, but you *still* have the option of reverting to the original weeks later, because the edited versions are only saved as copies.

-s*

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by analogika

It's called non-destructive editing, folks.

I like that fact about it, but I'd also like for there to be another option so that I can actually cut some of the video if I choose to without retaining the original if I need to save on some space.