Deleting Clips After Completing Project

I am a novice here. After creating a project can I delete the clips used in that project or are they still used to play the movie?

Hi
You are using a Non-Destructive Video editor. Meaning.
• Video Imported/Capture is stored in one place
• Project - is no movie but a text document pointing to the original material and how it is to be played.
So when trashing Event's - Project's too are killed.
To get space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk I do move Event's and Project's to external HDs
• MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted
• Should be FireWire - As USB/USB2 performs badly to me
• MUST MUST - be moved within iMovie Application - Never moved or altered via DeskTop/Finde as connections to iMovie will break.
Yours Bengt W

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