Brian - from what I can see, it appears that in Elements you can only eliminate frames at the beginning and end of a clip. What I really want to do is eliminate some frames here and there all over the clip. My test video is of that wretched chipmunk, but most of my videos will be of my fish tanks. I have one straight from the camera on Youtube here. As it happens, the fish sometimes dart off and you get some really unsharp frames, or I adjust the focus (the T1i only really allows for manual focus in video mode), and again, you get some frames that I'd rather not have as part of the final clip. If I have to split the clip every time I want to remove a couple of frames, just because the software doesn't allow me to remove frames from the middle of a clip, just at the ends, that is unbelievably painful!

I am very surprised that what I am looking for seems such an unusual feature. But apparently nobody else wants to remove frames from clips. Does everybody just stitch stuff together to create their movies

Oh, another problem I have with Elements is that it seems very bloated. The only way I can work with this program in on my desktop, but I have recently taken a liking to working on my laptop, but it takes forever and a day for Elements to even start on that thing - let alone do anything. I hardly notice a difference when working with Photoshop on either machine, so I am surprised that Elements slows down the laptop so much.