Dangerously low on disc space?

I've been importing DV footage into iMovie, and several times when I stop importing, I've gotten a warning message: "You are running dangerously low on disc space" and it says I should delete some files, or I might not be able to save my movie.
I don't understand it, because I have 56 GB of space available on my hard drive (it even says that in the bottom of the iMovie window). What's up with that?
I've ignored the warning and saved my projects just fine, but it keeps coming up. There was a time that I had my hard drive almost filled up, but I deleted a bunch of movie files to free up 60 GB.

Hi Iroth:
It's just me, but I always share all of my finished movies back to the DV tape that I originally imported them from. That way I have the original raw video plus the finished one on tape. Then I start a new tape the next time I make a movie.
Lots of tapes-priceless memories.
Maybe you should consider sending your iMovies back to tape, once you are done, and that way you will open up the extra space because you can delete the older ones.
Sue

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