Cutting clips from a video.

I have a video that was taken which is roughly 45 minutes. I would like to cut this into clips. Unfortunately I haven't found how. I am sure its easy to do. But perhaps someone can lead me to the right direction?

Sounds like you need some basics. Open imovie. Go to the help menu at the top and select watch apple tutorials. They give a great start to how to import, cut, and export your video. That is what you need to do.
the apple store is also very helpful with getting people going. they have classes that help you in person for free.

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2. Repeat step 1 for any other subclips needed from source clip 1
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