Getting iMovie to empty 'phantom' trash

I am at the end of my tether with this at this stage! I've checked the forums everywhere and can't seem to get an answer. I have finished my iMovie project and during the course of it deleted loads of footage and emptied the trash accordingly. The problem is that the piece is only 2 minutes long and it's taking up 32 GB's - fair enough I keep being told this is got to do with the non destructive editing - but how can I tell the computer to bypass this so I can have my memory back? I can't seem to find any way of rendering it so the computer will finally dump all of the memory to the trash so I can delete it. There are some tiny clips - a couple of seconds that when you put them in the trash it reads as 16GB but when I empty it doesn't reappear on my hard drive. This seems like it should be so straightforward but I can't get an answer anywhere - Help!!

Grrrrrr!
I exported to quicktime at full quality - then reimported the (quicktime) footage to a totally different iMovie project so I could trash the original - same thing again - I'm told clips are in use etc and I cannot empty the trash. I don't understand why there isn't a simple function where you can tell the programme to bypass or 'forget' about keeping long deleted and unwanted footage for non-destructive editing purposes. It means in some cases a third of my hard drive space is gone for no useful purpose whatsoever.
Time to get Final Cut methinks.

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Hi i am alice
I have deleted imovie and emptyied my trash by accident and i was wondering if anyone could tell me how to get it back
thx
alice

iMovie is part of the iLife suite of programs.
If you have 10.7 or 10.8 when the machine was purchased, just log into AppStore and accept the iLife for that machine and reinstall it all, it will replace iMove.
If you have 10.6 originally came on the machine, look on your second set of disks, there is a bundled installer that should put it back on, then Software Update fully to bring it current.
If you originally had 10.5 on the machine, stick the disk in and try to run the bundled installer, or use Pacifist from CharlesSoft to extract the program and then Software Update fully.
Restoring your Free iLife (iPhoto, iMovie etc)

It seems that somehow I no longer have permission to empty the trash...

Recently, I have run into a problem in that I can't empty the trash because, according to the pop up, I do not have permission to delete some items that are in the trash. ***?
The items I currently can't delte were put there from a jump (flash) drive. Is this the issue? I didn't have that probelm before upgrading to Lion. How can I get permission to empty the trash so that these things come off the flash drive and the trash get emptied?
Thanks for any help....

With that one, I get
rm: illegal operation
usage:rm [-f |-i] [-dPRrvw]file ...
unlink file
(My Name)-iMac:~(my name) (the password)
-bash: (password): command not found
(My Name)-iMac:~(my name)
In the case of the parenthisis, my name is showing as my actual name--although the last letter of name has an s added to it, whcih sometimes shows up as a dollar sign, and the password in parenthisis is the correct password.
Still nothing as far as getting the file out of the trash
Could the 'unlink file' string have something to do with OS X doesn't remove the file totally from the flash drive until it's been erased in the trash And if it isn't getting it erased in the trash, it won't be erased on the flash drive. It should be noted that within the flash drive is an unhighlighted file named .Trashes.
Really confused and frustrated at this point.
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Non-destructive editing is an important feature of iMovie HD 6.
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Please help

Hi wjosten,
Yes, I have checked the app folder and there is no imovie in there, there is also nothing in the trash.
I have also checked the HD for imovie and it seems as though it's just gone?
Thanks for your help, if you have any other suggestions I would really appreciate them.

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JustinV72 wrote:
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