[Angusdog]

I want to edit in FCE my old Digital8 movies. If I capture them in iMovie, I get one BIG MOV file. What I wanno do, is to be able to split the MOV into seperate clips. A bit like when you "split at playhead" in iMovie, although that doesn't do anything to the file.
Then I get a whole stack of clips as seperate files. What I then think I'll be able to do, once my copies of Panther arrive, is attached a folder action which opens them in QT Pro and exports them in the correct, non-DV-stream files for FCE.
Does that make sense? I guess I could cut & paste the clips in QT Pro, but I want to be able to do it a bit easier than that.
Anyone know of any software which may help?
Thanks in advance.

[Morris]

Angus,
There is a shareware program called SplitFuse which will split mov files and also fuse mov files together.
Hope this helps,
Morris

[Angusdog]

Thanks Morris.
Yep, that looked promising, and while it serves a good purpose, it doesn't quite do what I want. SplitFuse doesn't allow much control over where it splits the clip - I'd like to find the end/start of a clip and set a marker. Then move onto the next end/start point and mark that. Then hit a key and the .mov file is split into all those clips. I was hoping there'd be an app that did that, but maybe I need to do it in QT Pro. Maybe I'll write the app and call it AngusDV!

[Daft&Dewey-eyed]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but if the whole point of the exercise here is to edit your movies in FCE, why don't you capture in FCE rather than iMovie?

[Angusdog]

Sorry, for got to say at the start: My camcorder (Sony TRV120E) isn't supported by FCE, but it is by iMovie - as they say, go figure...