All footage of previous finished projects stay in story board

I movie 09.
I am a very experienced video worker with Windows and Pinnacle Studio.
When I try to use IMovie 09 all the for previous projects finished and no longer relevant stay in the story board.Does anybody know how to clear this story board such that for new projects I have no interference of this older stuff anymore and have footage only from my new project.
Clogz14

I now did all previous stuff away!! Happy chappie I do not know why for 4 little projects I had I found all old stuff interfering?I really did new project all the time and still had the old stuff?
So thank you for your very good answer made me happy at least.
clogz14

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UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
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Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
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Region codes.
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unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
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This gives me (I think) everything I want:
- small, robust libraries on a per-project basis, can be archived with the project. When the files are reinstated to their original location, LR never knew they were gone.
- a large, overall library (that may or may not be so robust) that can be reconstructed by re-importing images and XMPs held on backup media if required - a lot of elapsed time but not much interactive time (presumes the database has become corrupt rather than a disk crash or something).
- a reference in the large library to exactly which archive medium contains which project without the need to mount it in order to browse previews.
I reserve the right to be wrong about some or all of this, I'm still thinking it through.
Damian

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