# Creating epochs from continuous data without any events

**URL:** <https://mne.discourse.group/t/creating-epochs-from-continuous-data-without-any-events/2760>\
**Category:** Support & Discussions\
**Tags:** preprocessing, epochs\
**Created:** [February 27, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/creating-epochs-from-continuous-data-without-any-events/2760 "2021-02-27T15:05:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sadia14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sadia14](https://mne.discourse.group/u/Sadia14)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/creating-epochs-from-continuous-data-without-any-events/2760/1 "2021-02-27T15:05:25Z")

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Hi Richard,

Thank you for your reply.  
I want to do epoching of raw signals into a particular frame length and overlap by ignoring events. Suppose i have a signal [1:20] and I want to split it in overlapping epoch with a frame length 3 and overlap 1 using mne. .How can I do that?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![richard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mne.discourse.group/richard/32/15_2.png) [@richard](https://mne.discourse.group/u/richard)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/creating-epochs-from-continuous-data-without-any-events/2760/2 "2021-02-27T16:14:17Z")

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> [@Sadia14](#):
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> I want to do epoching of raw signals into a particular frame length and overlap by ignoring events. Suppose i have a signal [1:20] and I want to split it in overlapping epoch with a frame length 3 and overlap 1 using mne.

For creating epochs from continuous data without any events, you can use [`mne.make_fixed_length_epochs()`](https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.make_fixed_length_epochs.html)

This function, however, [does not yet support overlapping windows](https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues/8773). This might be addressed in our upcoming development sprint in March.