inserting Titles in iMovie HD

[Tuxer]

Hi,
I'm running an oldish version (5.02) of iMovie on my aging iMac (G5, OSX 10.4.11). I got a matching mini-DV camera this year, and am trying to use iMovie to edit the video.

iMovie allows to create titles (button in the icon dock at lower right). I can create one, and even get a preview. However, I do not manage to actually get it onto or between my fragments. The on-line manual tells (in translation) to "when the title is ready, drag it to the fragment or to the time bar viewer." However, I find nothing to drag and drop. When I click in the little window at the upper right I can only drag the position of the title. Also I do not see any button to click on to tell I'm finished. There is a button to (in translation) "complete", but it is and remains grayed out and unselectable.

???

Thanx,
Tom

 

[Tuxer]

In the iMovies forum of discussions.appl.com I found this link showing how to do this:

http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/showTitleMov.shtml

So what you need to drag and drop is the title type from the selection menu! This is the first program that I see use a selection menu also as the object editor - very confusing and very counter-intuitive.
HTH,
Tom