8 minutes of video is 5.4GB in iMovie how to reduce?

Have an 8 minute collection of 6 different video clips .mov that take up 5.4GB! must have made a mistake when importing? Currently using imovie 10.0.3, clips were imported from avchd sony camcorder in last years version of imovie. Any ideas of how to reduce the size to a normal use of storage space....

wow that worked well, thanks. That would save alot of storage space if I could do that with all my videos... Is it still a good size to edit a movie?
Would it be possible to import in the future as Mpeg instead of the default .mov when I import in imovie. Or is that not a good idea. When I import now with the latest version of imovie the size is quite tolerable, I believe. Is 10 minutes = 1 GB alot??
maybe I should film in Mpeg but not sure if my sony hdr-cx210 can...
Just looking for a novice user friendly solution for video import
thx

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