Emailing half of a split clip in iMovie

I recorded a video about 8 minutes long. I need to send the video as an attachment to my professor, but it says the file is too large; even being compressed. I learned how to split the clip in half, but now I can't figure out how to send each half separately. Anyone know how to do this?

Yes, I realize I can do that, but I really honestly want to use iMovie the way I think it was meant to be used, and if I'm passing off a partially resolved (transcoded) movie, and I want to take it through another editing revision, I have to re-garage band it too. Seems like a bad workflow.
Funny thing, I think there might be a bug. I just did the exact same thing (split a clip, and adjusted the audio on 1/2 of the clip) and it works fine in another iMovie08 project. The clip is clearly "split" (e.g. it has round corners on one side and flat corners on another), both parts of the split are next to each other. The only difference between the projects is that one is using background music, and the other is using pinned music (music starts 5 minutes into the project, so I use pinned music for background music throughout). I suspect there's an interaction there.
Again, thanks for the Garage Band workaround.

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iMovie (2013): Trim, split, and move clips
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14696
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