Hard drive loosing space every time I do a imovie project

Hi,
It seems like every time I do a imovie project, I lose 1 gig or so of space on my hard drive. I've tried looking in my files to see where this is happening. I can't find anything. I'm afraid to just start deleting stuff.I don't even know what most of the things in "library" are.
Please help, John.

Hi Templeton,
I complete the project. In other words, I burn a dvd, throw the iMovie project in the trash, throw the
iDVD project in the trash, and empty the trash.
I also have a problem with iMovie. When I throw clips in the trash and then empty the trash, it doesn't always free up space on the hard drive. This usually happens when it is really important to free up enough space on the hard drive to actually burn the DVD. It is verrrry frustrating!!!

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