Help! Emptying Trash in iMovie isn't freeing up space

I am quickly running out of GB in iMovie. In all the previous editions if you emptied the trash you got that GB space back.. But when I do it now, it's not freeing up any space.. I am down to 1.11 GB available.. can anyone help?

Eric, iMovie HD uses non-destructive editing of clips. That means you can always restore a clip to its original length. If you import a 5-minute clip and split it into three parts, each of the three clips can be restored to the length of the original clip. If you screw up, recovery is just a few mouseclicks away.
In iMovie 4, if Clips 1, 2 and 3 share the same source file, trashing Clip 2 will remove its frames from the source file, shortening the file. You will recover that disk space when you empty the iMovie trash.
That's not how it works in iMovie HD. When you empty the trash the source file is NEVER shortened, for Clips 1 and 3 must be restorable to the full length of the original clip. If other clips use that source file, no disk space is recovered because no frames are removed from the source file.
Disk space is only recovered when you discard the LAST clip of a source file. Then iMovie HD discards the entire file.
When it does that, note that iMovie HD moves the file to the Mac Trash (in the Finder). So you must empty the Mac Trash too to recover the disk space.
BTW, you can pretty much ignore the Trash numbers reported by iMovie HD. It's reporting the size of the source file, which may or may not actually be discarded.
There are pros and cons to non-destructive editing, of course. The biggest disadvantage is that we recover less disk space. The advantage is we can always restore a clip -- even when Copying and Pasting clips between projects.
There's also improved reliability. When emptying the Trash, we no longer see the project corruption we sometimes saw in iMovie 2/3/4.
Fortunately, large FireWire drives are cheap and getting cheaper. (You may need one, by the way, for your drive is very full. Best advice I hear is to leave at least 10% empty or Mac OS X itself can get into trouble.)
If that's not an option, one solution is to export the iMovie HD project back to the camera, then re-import it to a new project. The new project won't contain the discarded stuff.
Karl

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