#Imovie 10.1.4 events sections movie

It sits in this folder, if you want to think of it as a folder. Since I originally brought it in as part of My Event this is where it is. iMovie is smart enough to only store one copy of it in the iMovie Library. I've got another clip that appears to be part of Project Media but is also part of My Event. So what I've got now, is I've got one clip, this one, that's only part of Project Media. Nothing changes here but if I go to Project Media, to My Movie, I see both clips here. I select a clip and I drag it into the timeline. Now at this point it is still somewhat straightforward until I go to My Event, which is basically just a storage space for clips.

#Imovie 10.1.4 events sections movie

I can go back and select just My Movie and just see the stuff in there. I can also select All Events and I can just see the events, I would see this thing here and I can flip between them and if I had a second event I could flip between that. So it's going to show me everything when I select this.

I see under My Movie one video and My Event three videos. If I were to select iMovie Library I actually will see all four. When I look at Project Media I've got that other video I selected. You can see now that I've got My Event selected. So I'm going to choose three videos here. Now I can import media and since I have the event selected rather than the project media selected it will import it into that event. I'll just change that to My Event, change it to whatever you want to be descriptive. It'll create an event and give it a name that has the date. I'm going to instead click where it says iMovie Library and now I can do File, New Event. Well I cannot create a new event here, File, New Event is grayed out, because I have the Project Media selected. So what about events? How do I get clips into events and what difference does it make having it in an event rather in a project media. You can simply import video into the project, into the movie, and then forget about events and just create your video here by dragging and dropping from the media area into the timeline. So for many people you never need to mess with events at all. Only this project, this movie, has access to this clip and any other clips I import into it. If you were to create another project you wouldn't have access to this clip. A movie clip that is only for this project. Well, it turns out that if you import something directly into your Projects, your movie, with it selected on the left sidebar it doesn't get added to an event at all. So where are these events that everybody always gets. Notice there's still no events that have been created. Now I see the video clip here as part of My Media under My Movie. Just to make it simpler I'm going to drag and drop a video into here. It's the same thing as using File, Import Media. The other is that I can simply drag and drop to here. One is that I can go to File, Import Media. Now there are two main ways to bring video clips into this project. Everything is totally empty and I just have this one empty project to start with. This is where events will be stored and there are no events. I can also look down here in the iMovie Library. The terms movie and project are pretty much interchangeable in iMovie. I've got the media in my current project which is called My Movie. Now on the left I can see the sidebar here that shows all the different media I've got. It's going to be a standard movie project. So here I've got nothing in Media stored here and I've got nothing in Projects.

You really can't do anything in iMovie until you create a project. So let's take a look at an example and see if we can get to the bottom of it.

If you're new to using iMovie, or even if you have been using it for awhile, you may be a bit confused about the difference between Project and Events and where clips go when you import them. On this episode let's look at iMovie Projects and Events. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Understanding iMovie Projects and Events at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.