IMovie imported all iphoto movies......

And in a noob moment I thought this would be okay. Now as one with any intelligence would imagine (not me obviously) this is a space hog which ate up 4 gb of HD space. I want that space back.
I am wondering how to delete this iphoto event in imovie without deleting the original videos in iphoto. I peeked around here but only found two mentions of this issue with no real resolution.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: JDG63

Go to ~/Movies/iMovie Events. See if you have a folder in there that says "iPhoto Events". Drag it to your desktop for now. Restart iPhoto, and make certain all your movies are there. If so, delete the folder. I suggest a backup before you do this.

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