Using Trailer text "Titles" in other imovie projects?

The various trailers in the new imovie 11 are great, but I can't seem to utilize the text / titles specific to those trailers on any of my other projects? Is there a trick to pulling it off? Same thing with the music in the trailers, can't seem to apply it to / access within any other projects in imovie ....

There is a better way to use the "Animatics" used in iMovie's trailers. Unfortunately, Apple didn't consider that more text may be need in a trailer as there is currently no command or native function to create new text using the same title effects used in iMovie's trailers. Fortunately, after a short search on the net, I found this:
http://www.ipex.org/files/use_imovie_11.pdf
This guy provides step-by-step instructions on how to use iMovie's trailer animatics in any project. Hope this helps you, it helped me!

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Using selected clips to start new iMovie project

This must be a fairly simple question. I've searched on the Apple discussions and haven't found the answer. I've imported a large video into iMovie. I want to choose only a selection of clips to do a second iMovie project. Is there a way to select them and begin another project? Thanks for your help.

Unlike earlier versions of iMovie, iMovie HD lets you Copy and Paste clips from Project A to Project B. That may be the easiest way.
When you Copy and Paste a clip, iMovie delivers the source file of the clip to Project B -- the entire source file. (This is so the clip in Project B inherits the non-destructive editing feature it had in Project A.) To avoid iMovie duplicating a source files multiple times, Copy and Paste all the clips you want together.
It's about a different topic, but this thread describes this feature:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68bc069a
Like that thread, you could export the clips you want to the camera, then re-import them to a new project.
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I added titles to my iMovie project and when I preview it they show up. But when I Share--I tried downloading onto desktop and also uploading to You Tube, only the video part shows.

I haven't used iMovie in a long time and it's a newer version than I used in the past, so maybe I'm just missing something. I uploaded 2 clips and put both into the project section.
I put in a title at the beginning that I wanted to fade and I added additional titles in a different position to indicate certain things happening in the video. The first title bar appears as a big purple bar below the first clip. The additional ones appear as little purple bars above it. Eventually I wanted to take the big one out but when I deleted it, the video part also disappeared so I kept it but just took out the text.
Then when I dragged the second clip into the work area, it popped into the same line as the big purple bar. I just kept adding little title bars along that and that seemed ok.
When I previewed it all in the upper right box, it seemed to do exactly what I wanted to do. But then when I Shared it, only the second (larger) clip appeared and no titles appeared anywhere.
I'm sure I just put somethings in the wrong place and obviously I don't know all the correct language for projects, events, etc. Have I made any obvious mistakes that are easy (I hope) to fix?
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Thanks victoryhat. I learned some new things from this very clear tutorial. But it didn't answer my question about why the titles don't stay with the video when I export it.
He did mention something that might be a clue however. When he talked about importing a title he created as an image, he noted that he was careful to make the image the same size as the video he was adding it to: 1280 x 720. Since I took the video with an iPhone in the vertical position, my video image isn't the same size and orientation as the titles.
Maybe there is a way I should be setting the screen for this size??? I'll go back and play around. Meanwhile thanks for alerting me to Gary Rosenzweig's MacMost tutorials. Very clear. I'll look for more.

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Got a problem with Premiere Pro CS5 regarding titles. We´re a group of people who uses the same CS5-project file as a template (write protected) from a server out on different computers.
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You explained it well enough.
But in my experience, you will have to redo the logo every time you switch computers. I don't know why PP keeps losing that link, but it does.
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I made a simple iMovie 09 project and burned it to a DVD via iDVD.
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Hi
There are so many things to this.
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B. External hard disks - MUST be Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted -
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• iMovie Events
• iMovie Projects
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IMovie project not updated

Still using iMovie 09.
Import films. IMovie events updated accordingly.
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I have scanned the internnet. That happened to others.
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Fine, but how and where.
Where is my mistake ?

Strange. I did not do anything, I did not change anything, automatic update just made up its mind and decided to operate as expected.
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iMovie doesn't support importing one iMovie project to another. When we try, we get exactly the error you quoted.
You can, however, import all the Timeline video and audio as a single clip to a new project. Or you can drag files from the Media folder of the project to the Timeline of a NEW project.
In the Finder, Control-click on the project icon and choose Show Package Contents from the popUp menu. You'll see the movie "Timeline Movie.mov" in the window that opens. You want to import that movie to a new project, or import selected files in the Media folder.
To import, drag the file to the Timeline of a NEW iMovie project. If importing the Timeline Movie, everything on the Timeline of the original project will arrive as a single clip in the new project.
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My iMovie projects are video only (no menus, etc. until I import to iDVD).
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