Can you delete iMovie video files without affecting a project?

I downloaded files from my recorder and created an iMovie. I didn't use every recorded file.
Now that I've created a project can the orginal files be deleted to save space?

If you never ever want to edit that project again, and if the raw footage contains images that are not important to you, and you never want to use those clips in a future project you can delete them.
The important thing to remember is that your video clips are stored in Events. The Project only contains a text file that has the paths to the event clips and instructions for how to put your video together.
When you finish a project and SHARE it using the Share menu, you are creating a finished version of the project. So if that is all you will ever need, you can delete your events and even your project.
What a lot of people do is to have a large external drive to store old events on. See instructions here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141
Also, if you create a camera archive (for AVCHD camcorders) of your raw clips, you can re-import your event clips later.

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