Split iMovie09 DV-Streams

[cecco]

I've captured a couple of old Hi8 video footage via a DV Camcorder into iMovie09. As there is no timecode transferred to the DV Camcorder, everything is written to a single DV clip in iMovie. I'd like to split this clip into several real clips and adjust the capture time before I build a project in iMovie. Unfortunately you can't split the source (event) clips in iMovie.

The only app on Mac that allows editing .DV files without reencoding seems to be Mpeg Streamclip, but it has no simple split option. I would have to trim each clip, save it, reload the original clip, trim etc., which is time consuming.

Does anyone know an app, that allows to split the iMovie09 DV-Streams without reencoding? I'd prefer a Mac app, but it would be no problem to use a Windows or Linux app via Parallels, if it does a better job.

Furthermore I found two apps for windows, which split DV clips according to optical scene detection: Scenalizer and AVCutty. They shall work with DV AVI files but I was unable to feed them the captured iMovie DV streams. Even after reencoding to AVI with Visual Hub, the file was not recognized.

Does anyone use one of these apps together with iMovie?
Any other scene detection apps, which work together with iMovie?

Thanks for any help.

[edDV]

Are you sure you can't do this in iMovie? I think you can.

I don't have iMovie here to show you how.

You capped to *.dv. These won't work in PC apps without somewhat complicated conversion to DV-AVI (no loss in conversion).

I'd bone up on iMovie first.

[ctakim]

Was this ever answered? If not you can definitely do this in iMovie although it will cost you a frame or two at the point in the event you want to split. Just select the minimal number of frames you can at the split point in the event window and then choose reject selection. This will red tag the rejected frames. Next choose move rejected clips to the trash and be prepared to wait...and wait...! Finally the clip will be split in two and you can move separate them into two events if want with the split even in front of clip command. If you have already figured this out, this post if for others!

[TheGator7.1]

That works (reject a few frames and send to trash). Key is send to trash. If you just reject the segment (few frames), it looks split, but the original file remains intact on the HDD (use "reveal in finder"). I will confirm this, but it looks like the original is .dv and the new split pieces are .mov. I can't find the original .dv file. I guess the OS deleted it and doesn't even show it in the trash. Awesome help. Thanks.