How to start a selection from an exact time of the clip?

Question

Hello,
I'm a new user of iMovie '08 and I'd like to know how to start the selection of a part of a clip from an exact point.
Let me explain (I'm not english, so I hope everyone understands) :
Let's say I have one clip that lasts 1h20' ok? I remember that at 9'20'' there's a scene I want to catch. And It's very important to be at 9'20'' because there's a peculiar frame I want.
Let's also say that my problem is not about a single point, but a lot of them. I wrote down (as an example) these parts I want.
9'20''
15'10''
36'00''
ok?
How do I place myself in that part of the clip? I don't want to look at the scene since I don't remember it well (I wrote down the minutes since I short in memory).
I hope this is possible. Thank you very much for your help

Answer 1

QuickTime Player Pro (a $30 upgrade of QuickTime Player, available from Apple) lets you do exactly what you want to do. It lets you select a chunk of any movie using one of three time formats (one is min:sec:frames). You can Copy that chunk and Paste it into a new movie. In other words, it lets you extract just the frames you want that go in a new movie that you save as a standalone movie.
To use the new movie you would drop it in the iMovie Events folder. (Or more likely, create a new folder in the iMovie Events folder where you drop all your chunk movies.)
When you next launch iMovie it will generate thumbails for each of your chunk movies. Now you can use them in iMovie 7 like any other import.
If you have iMovie 6 you can also do it there, for it shows you the min:sec:frames of your one long clip. To use any chunk elsewhere, you would use iMovie 6 to split the clip, then use the Share selected clip only checkbox in the export dialog window to export each chunk to a Full Quality DV movie.
Karl