Adding transitions and titles: no choosing ends of clips?

Hi there,
Does anyone have a clue about the following:
When setting a theme you can choose to tick the box 'add transitions and titles'. According to the tutorial you should get the following options about the end of clips in your projects:
- Overlap ends and shorten clip
- Extend ends etc.
How come I do not have this option? I'm working in Imovie 8.0.6.
Any suggestions? I would like to use these options now and then...

This was an option in iMovie 08, but it was removed in iMovie 09.
The current behavior is that it overlaps ends and shortens the clip. This is the way you would want it to behave for video. After you painstakingly edit out Uncle Joe picking has nose at the wedding, you don't want a transition to put the nose-picking back into your movie. The overall length of the movie stays the same.
For photos, it was useful to have the option of extending or overlapping and shortening. But this is no longer an option as far as I know.

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