What program should I be using?

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I am wanting to make a 3-5 sec video clip taken portion of a movie that I have on my HD and email it to a friend.
I figured I could do this in iMovie, yet the file will not import. The original format was MPEG-1. I read that iMovie would only import MPEG-4 (why only MPEG-4!?), so I converted the file to MPEG-4 yet it still will not import.
Should I be using a different program for this? I don't want to spend any money right now. I have all of the iLife programs, and all the bundled stuff that comes with a current model iMac. In addition I just purchased Toast, but Toast is not for editing is it?
If there's no way to make iMovie work for me, is there a free download out there? Is there another program on my system that I could use for this?
Thanks.
Message was edited by: pianoman1976

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.. I am looking into 2 possibilities, Adobe Premiere elements 12, or.........Final Cut Pro X.
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