Help! How do I trim clips to smaller size so I can move between movies?

Help! I am editing a wedding video with a lot of footage. If I try to clip out a very small part of the video, even if it's only 10 seconds long, it still stays the same size of the original clip - 5 gb! I can't create a video like this - I've already deleted everything off of my computer as it is just to make room for the clips. Please tell me there's a way to trim down clips so they're smaller in size so I can move between movies and edit this. I really appreciate your help - thank you!!

This has been answered in your duplicate post, but just to clarify:
Non-destructive editing is an important feature of iMovie.
iMovie preserves the entire copy of every clip you place into your movie in case you change your mind at a later stage.
So, if you have cut out one minute from a 45 minute clip, iMovie will have stored two complete copies of that clip. This is why is helps to set import as 3-5 minute clips rather than one huge chunk. As DV runs at 13GB per hour your project files can get very big.
One workaround is to complete the editing of a section of the movie, then export that to Quicktime: highlight the clip/s, choose Share-Quicktime, turn on Share selected clips only, and choose Full Quality from the pop-ip menu.
Once you have saved the stand-alone clip to your hard drive, you can re-import it into your project using the File/Import command, and delete the original long clip/s from the project.

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