IMovie cropping

I am new to iMovie and am trying to crop a clip so as to reduce the file size. Whenever I crop the clip, the portion that I crop is 'hidden' but not deleted. Hence when I look at the file size of the newly cropped clip, it is still the same.
Is there a way to crop the clip and remove it perminantly, i.e. reduce the file size of the clip?
Thanks

For clarification, does
this solution work for HDV? Or will it automatically
reduce the quality to DV when you do this?
The quality won't be negatively affected.
When discussing the export, I said to export to a "Full Quality DV" movie. That's technically not correct. It is correct for DV-type iMovie HD projects, but not for projects of other types.
A "Full Quality" export always matches the native movie format of the current project. So a "Full Quality" export from an HDV project is NOT the same as a "Full Quality" export from a DV project or an MPEG-4 project. The exported movies are different types.
iMovie HD automatically picks the correct export format for you. That allows your clip/project to be exported, then re-imported with no loss of quality.
Karl

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