[rotuts]

hello

sorry for so trivial a question

I have two iMovie files from home movies. Id like to combine them into one lartge iMovie file then work with that.

Im very new to iMovie and have not done this. I know that the program is very particular to where things are in its files, and that the "clips" in each are named the same clip 1, etc so I cna't just drag the second to the first.

how do Icombine with iMovie?

do I rename the files in the second and then move them over?

say movie one is clip 1 , 2 , 3 etv then rename the other 4, 5, 6?

thanks rotut

[MacMatt]

Originally posted by rotuts:
hello

sorry for so trivial a question

I have two iMovie files from home movies. Id like to combine them into one lartge iMovie file then work with that.

Im very new to iMovie and have not done this. I know that the program is very particular to where things are in its files, and that the "clips" in each are named the same clip 1, etc so I cna't just drag the second to the first.

how do Icombine with iMovie?

do I rename the files in the second and then move them over?

say movie one is clip 1 , 2 , 3 etv then rename the other 4, 5, 6?

thanks rotut

Yes. You can rename the files and move them...I have done what you are proposing to do.

Matt

[fiesta cat]

Originally posted by MacMatt:
Yes. You can rename the files and move them..

Or you can even just let iMovie import them, and it will rename clips that have conflicting names (i.e. if you have two clips named "Clip 1" it will name the second one "Clip 1 1" or something like that. Better to do what you say though, up front, to cut down on confusion.

[rotuts]

thanks for the help.

Ive tried all of these. importing takes about 3 min/c;ip

renameing in the second ( a number larger than the last in the first movie) and then draging takes no time at all, the iMovie (first) asks if youi want to put them in the line, and yes takes no time.

so0 renaming carefully is very fast.

thanks rotut

[Rev-O]

I've always done the importing option, myself, and it works well. Also works if you fill up an hour miniDV tape over the course of many weeks. Load all the various clips into one project, and then create new projects as needed, importing the clips out of the original project. Clear as mud, I'm sure. But it saves time looking for clips. You know the name of the 'master' project, and then you go into that folder and grab the clips you need.

Side note. I had a somewhat interesting iMovie issue. I had named a project 'new', and subsequently, if I choose 'create new project', I'd get an alert notifying me that 'new' already existed. It didn't matter what I named the new project, alert every time. 'A project named New already exists' and then iMovie would promptly go down in flames. Took me a while to make the connection, because I had forgotten that I had named a project 'new.' Just had to go in a rename the associated files, and everything was good as new.

So don't do that.