"That clip is not long enough."

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"That clip is not long enough."

I was making a trailer and had finished exporting.

Upon reviewing the export, I noticed a few flashes of placeholder images, but nothing was showing in the story board.

There were items missing in the shot list.

Having tried to drag items into the them, but I got "That clip is not long enough.", even though it had previously allowed images.

I quite iMovie and relaunched it.

Now half my story board shows place holder images, however if you preview them, they still show the original clip.

However, I can no longer drag anything into iMovie, as it says "That clip is not long enough.". These are slows between 0.3s and 2.0s, which video ranging from 1s to 1m.

All are being rejected.

Whilst I was building this project, I was dragging from Finder and after a while, iMovie kept getting stuck and moving the previously dragged asset into where I was dragging the new item.

https://youtu.be/DIyApCG73mI

MacBook Pro 13”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 21, 2019 4:34 AM

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Rich839

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Dec 22, 2019 9:26 AM in response to Hackzilla

I wasn't able to replicate your issue. While in the Trailer program, when I tried to insert a clip into the story board template that was shorter than the template duration I would get the same "clip is not long enough" that you are getting. That was solved by using a longer clip. I wasn't able to create any of the other problems that you are describing. I'm running Mojave with iMovie 10.1.13.

You might try opening iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. Now try creating a Trailer and see if it works properly.

If the above doesn't work, as a workaround open the Trailer program and do a File/Convert Trailer to Movie. That will give you a movie project with all the templates displayed in the timeline. There you can insert any length of video that you want.

-- Rich

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