2 external harddrives, one final product?!?! is it possible?

hi,
i am making a movie and have a lot of footage so i am using two separate external harddrives. both have about 15GB left on them.
i need to combine clips from both external harddrives to put my movie together. i tried copying and pasting clips from one movie to the other, but was told there is not enough space to do this.
HOW CAN I USE CLIPS FROM BOTH DRIVES TO MAKE MY MOVIE? shoudl i export it to quicktime and then import it? will that make it smaller? i have the version of imovie that doesn't let you open two movies at the same time. i do not have quicktime pro, but i do have quicktime.
i would be so grateful to any help you can give. thanks all!

welcome deharriso to the  board
....hmmm...- due to the timecritical behavior of video-editing, iM stores ALL files in one single solid folder/project-package... so, you should have ONE drive (internal/external) which has enough space to store the WHOLE project...
some math: 1h video =~13GB... in case, final media is DVD, max. project length is 2h, plus some... "anything" (clips you don't need, additional music, grafix)... letssay: you need at last 30 - 40 GB for your project....
best practise (in case you don't need to edit transitions/titles etc anymore):
export BOTH projects back to tape.
erase both projects from drives
try to make one drive as "project's drive" => anything you don't need there, push it over to drive II
import material into new iM project, located on drive I...
for sure, you can export selected clips out of a iMproject I and import that into iMproject II... but then you have 100MB in I, 100MB exported somewhere, 100MB finally in project I... means: triples your need of space... :-/
don't forget:
your Mac needs ~5GB free on internal drive, just to be a "happy" Mac; and don't forget, you need 10 - 15GB additionally free to run iDD smoothly....
a crystal clear workflow BEFORE launching a new project is essentiell... I'm too ran into space trouble... basic rule: just import from tape, what you really need... iM projects shouldn't be too large...
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