Bloat in iMovie (iPhoto Library & Events)

I'm trying to get rid of the memory and hard drive bloat in iMovie to hopefully get it running faster.
1) What is the point of having the iPhoto Library connected to iMovie? It seems like iMovie loads the entire thing which seems like an insane amount of waste.  I'm NEVER going to use anything in iPhoto except once in a blue moon.  Can this be gotten rid of?
2) I always delete everything from "projects" and all the clips I can see when I'm done exporting so there isn't loads of bloat in the next project.  However, when I click on "All Events" there is one event sitting there with like 25Gigs of crap in it.  I can't open it or do anything with it.  It's just sitting there.  What is this? How do I get rid of it?
Thanks!!!

Hi
I would set iPhoto to open a new empty photo library
- Start iPhoto and keep alt-key down during up-start - select to do a new library
Next time iMovie will start faster
Else a note I made for iDVD - but same goes for iMovie (most of it)
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk for SD-Video Quality and about 4 - 5 times more - if it is a HD-Project.
No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
Do not have more external devices connected as is of urgent need. Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - Or to be disconnected/turned off
Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo
First - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set pointer to this
Secondly - turns on screen saver
Then - to show that it has nothing to show
No File Vault on - Important
NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
Lot's of icons on DeskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
if a project is in a real hurry
First - Then Start a new User-Account and
Then - log into this and iMovie get's faster too
And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

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