Sorry Kelly, you read me the wrong way. You asked why the software was designed as such. iMovie was designed to be easy to use and to make decisions for the editor to keep it simple. I just answered the question, it was not intended to be personal.

No problem man. I gotcha.

Cheers
Kelly

Rickey has got the method spot-on but that will not work on HDV...only regular DV clips.

The whole clip is split into shorter clips and the in and out points will be when you started and stopped recording. The entire original clip will consist of markers after it finishes scanning and under the Browser, the subclips are automatically created under the clipname itself.

Hope its not confusing!

Cheers

WeeHan

HDV does that too more easier imo. In log and capture clip setting check create new clip on start stop and it will give you the sub clips.
You have to do this before you capture your media.

Cheers!
Rickey