Movie files in imovie won't trash

I am working with a movie in imovie and when I dump a clip, it will not free up space on my hard drive. I have dumped the trash and my free space does not increase. When I put in a new file it shows 12mb of trash, I dump it again and still I have no more space.
I have also tried dumping from finder but trash isn't an option. It is grayed out.
I would really appreciate your help.
:)Thanks

Non-destructive editing is a critically important part of video project development - it makes it possible to continually revise your work until it's absolutely right. But clearly if you trim a clip that is still in use, you can't trash the bits you trimmed because they are really still in the project, just not visible.
There is an easy way around it though. Once you know you don't want the unused bits, instead of trimming using the scrubber or by dragging in from the ends of the clip, put the playhead at the part of the clip you want to use and instead of trimming, go to the edit menu and select 'split video at playhead' you now will have two clips with the same number - the bit you want and the bit you don't. You can trash the bit you don't and because the clip was split, the trashed part can now be completely deleted. Beware though, that once done, you can't get it back however much you might want it!

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