Deleting extra import footage

I am importing old 8mm tape by running my camera rca to my sony video camera and then firewire to my mac. Which works great, but I often leave it to long and I get a lot of extra nothing, I have tried selecting the extra stuff, and pressing delete but all it does is put a red line on top of that section how to I delete the extra so I can save hard drive space. I left it running last night by accident so i have 8 hours of grey. The files is 128GB (doh!!)
*oh never mind, I just have to hit move rejected clips to trash ( doh!! doh!!)*
Message was edited by: skitson
Message was edited by: skitson

Previous versions of iMovie had ways to delete footage for real (vs. just hiding it) but now iMovie uses nondestructive editing so nothing is truly deleted but the down side is you get a lot of wasted drive space.
So the answer is to select the parts you DO want then export them or drag then to a new project. Once you have confirmed the good footage is safely showing up in a new project, trash the old project completely and then empty your system trash to free up the drive space.
Cheers,
Patrick

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