Unable to select individual frames from entire mov file in iMovie

I am trying to edit one long clip in iMovie from an iPhoto .mov file downloaded from a FlipCam. When I select the project from the library in iMovie, I cannot isolate frames to trim. The entire clip is repeatedly highlighted no matter what I do. I use a macbook pro. I have tried importing the file from both iPhoto and from a copy downloaded directly from the FlipCam to my desktop. I've tried some keyboard shortcuts but nothing seems to work. All frames in the file are highlighted. What am I doing wrong? I need to split this one long clip into several shorter ones for our company website and also trim some unwanted frames out.

FrameGrabbingControl allows you to grab a frame. but you cant directly write from that frame. Do i have to create a dataSink.
Actually i tried to do one thing that is, I used the cut program. But from that i can not repeatedly take out frame as media data.

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