Deleting iphoto clips in imovie

In Imovie, I can see and edit my iphoto videos. If i delete these iphoto clips within imove, are they deleted completely or do they remain in iphoto? Thanks so much for your help.

Thank you SO MUCH. That will explain why, when I have copied an iphoto clip (within imovie) to an imovie event and then deleted the iphoto clip (within imovie), suddenly my hard drive filled up to capacity. So it sounds like I need to go to iphoto and delete that clip, in order to save space. This leads me to 2 further questions:
1 - If i have copied the iphoto clip into an imovie event, will it remain in my imovie event if I delete it from iphoto? I don't want to lose these clips, I just want to tidy up my video clips and would rather keep them in imovie events than iphoto, if thats possible.
2 - If I delete the clip from iphoto but have used some bits of it in an imovie project - will it delete only the unused sections of that clip and where will it store the used clips if I delete the source clip in iphoto?
Hope these questions make sense and cannot thank you enough for helping me.

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I've posted here before about discrepancies in the date and times of some iPhoto Video as shown in the iPhoto Video library of iMovie '09.
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Thanks so much for contributing to this topic and making effort to answer my questions. I called Apple to inquire about this and I have a couple of suggestions that were given to me that may be of some help.
Two solutions were given to me:
1) As QuickTimeKirk stated earlier, .mov or .(whatever else might go here) is only a container for other files. So .mov is not the problem or the unreadable file for Imovie, but whatever other file that may be contained in the .mov container is the problem. Therefore, you may have to obtain a 3rd pary converter. They suggested something like flipformac or quicktime pro. I don't know how hard or easy it may be to work with a converter and I am somewhat on a schedule so I opted for option #2.
2)Download Imovie HD 6 for free, create your project therein, and then export it to Imovie 8 if you wish. Imovie 8 has a tutorial on how to do this if necessary. To download Imovie HD 6 visit http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html.
I hope this helps and thanks again!
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...tried "moving rejected clips to trash...
...got Error message...
"Unabe to delete rejected clips:
The operation could not be completed.Error writing file: /Users/donrex/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Family 56/iMovie Thumbnails/clip-135-02-05 05;27;15-1"
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