How do I change from "Full" to "Large" - post import?

I have imported clips into imovie '09 in the "Large" size. Now that they are in imovie I would like to change the size of some of them to "Full". I want to do this to free up hard drive space and I don't need these clips to be that large.
I went under "file"; "optimize video" and changed them that way, but that actually takes up more space on my hard drive.
Thank you.

Large is 960x540. Full is 1920x1080. So large should be smaller.
You can change from Full to Large later, but you cannot switch from Large to Full.
Unless of course the files are still on your camera. Or if you created an archive of your camera so you still have the original files from your camera.
If your camera uses AVCHD clips, they are converted to Apple Intermediate Codec on import, so no need to optimize.
If your camera makes h.264 clips, they are not automatically converted to Apple Intermediate Codec on import, so by optimizing, you will get better performance. But when you optimize a 960x540 h.264 file, it is converted to a 960x540 AIC file (which is larger.)
Both AVCHD and h.264 are highly compressed formats. They will take 1 complete "photo" every 24 (or so) frames. The next 23 frames are partial frames which contain compressed information like what has changed since the previous frame, direction of motion, etc. When you "optimize", you are converting the file to Apple Intermediate Codec, which converts every frame to a full frame. For editing and rendering, you are much better off having the full frames, because it cuts down on the amount of processing that iMovie has to do.
If you will be doing a lot of video, you may want to consider a large external drive, because video files are large.
If I misunderstood your question, please post back.

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