Disk Space - iMovie Event

I'm running out of space on my hard drive while editing a video.
I looked into Finder/Movies and I can see the same video being under iMovie Original Movies/New Event and iMovie Events/New Event. Each consuming 35GB, hence a total consumption of 70GB.
I have backed up other files and deleted them to increase hard disk space, but still these movie files are too large.
As the files are duplicated would like to delete one of them. I don't know which or if any of them can be deleted without affecting the projects that have not been shared yet.
Can someone please advice?
Thanks

First, I would give your event a name. Do this in iMovie so you don't mess up your project.
Secondly, I would try this. Open your event in iMovie. Do you see one or two? If just one, right click on a clip in the event, and select "Show in FInder". See which of the two folders it is in.

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