Importing a movie - lack of disk space?

I'm tryin to import an mp4 file of just under 908mb into iMovie, so i can compress it down. However, when i try and do this it comes up with an error message saying "The file could not be imported: There is not enough disk space left to import Macintosh HD/Users/Drewy/Movies/The Big Lebowski". This is probably very very simple. I have 20gb of hard drive left if that makes any difference. I'm just wondering what might be stopping it from importing and how i could solve this?

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