Editing & joining clips

Hi all,
just wanna check
I'm got some clips that I want to join that together as well removing some part of it to form a very large content of it.
is this possible with imovie?

first:
yes you import footage as clips and the clips create "events". You then use the "events' to create projects. This is basically what you are doing...you are assembling ie joining clips into a project and then exporting/sharing the final project.
A few things:
How large? There are time limits for burning to a DVD.
How are you sharing the project?
What are the specs of the footage you are bringing in to imovie?
The question is not an issue of editing and joining...thats the easy part.

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