Greenscreen in Imovie HD 6.03

Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but i can't find anything in the menus regarding "masking" or "compositing".
I shot an actor against green screen, and now i wanna start messing with it.
Am I completely out to lunch?

Colin,
"Am I completely out to lunch?"
No, not completely.
But you will need some third party plugins to do it.
Gee Three offers in their Slick Volume 4.
http://www.geethree.com/slick/V_04.html
Stupendous offers one as well.
http://www.stupendous-software.com/Stupendous/MasksCompositing/Pages/index.html
Matt

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