How can I select a fragment from second to second?

iMovie 11 tutorials:

http://help.apple.com/imovie/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie

and also these:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html#interface

There is a way to see the time of a spot in the clip.

If the footage was made with a modern HD camcorder or a DV tape camcorder, this should work fine.

If the footage was made with an analog camcorder, there are additional steps. (let me know if you need them)

First, click VIEW/PLAYHEAD INFORMATION. Now you can see the time and date as you skim the clip. You will see the time the clip was shot, not elapsed time from zero, so you may have to calculate that 1:30:25 would be 3:30:25 if the clip began at 1PM for example.

OK This will involve renaming the clip, so I suggest you rename it in the Finder and then import the clip into iMovie again so that it will generate thumbnails with the new name.

Rename the clip in the form clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.ext

where

clip must be lower case

yyyy = year

mm = month

dd = day

hh = hour

mm= minutes

ss = seconds

ext = the current file extension (e.g. .dv, .mov, .mp4, etc)

To make it easy for you, the date can be anything, and the hours, minutes, seconds can be 00;00;00 so you can see the time from the beginning.

After changing the name, import into iMovie by using FILE/IMPORT MOVIE.

Now, when you use VIEW/PLAYHEAD INFO, you will see the time when you skim.