Placing clips made in iMovie into iDVD dropzones

I am trying to move clip segments I make in iMovie to the drop zones in iDVD.
I can make smaller clip segments from the clips in iMovie using the "split video at playhead" feature. I then place those new segments in the clip section on the right in iMovie.
But when I move those new segments to a drop zone in iDVD the entire original clip shows up.
How can I get only the new, smaller segment into the drop zone?
Thanks---------cam

OK
May be I was to shallow in answering. I meant making from original material
the new teasers - with as little extra captured material as possibly.
But after some thinking I probably would try another way:
• In the original movie. USE the in resp. out-points (the small two triangles)
under the line in Canvas/Viewer under the play-head triangle (far left end).
• Select the desired part
• Export out as QuickTime.mov (full quality), selected part ONLY and Selfcontaining.
Now close iMovie and drop this new movie into the drop-zone in iDVD.
This should be a working solution.
Sorry for not figured this out from the start.
Yours Bengt W

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