Moving Clips to New Project

I've imported some video into a project and have left over clips that I'd like to move into a new project. When I open a new project and try to drag the clips there, it takes literally forever to move a 30 second clip into the new project. It actually never completes. I'm running iMovie 06 on a brand new Intel iMac with 2GB of RAM. There has to be a better way to get clips from one project into another. Any answers would be greatly appreciated

Brian Smith7 wrote:
...It seems when I try to grab a clip to move it to another movie or to my desktop, it's actually grabbing the whole movie instead of just the clip.
it does..
when doing copy/paste of a clip from one project to another, indeed all material related to that edited clip (e.g. 32clip from a 30min import) gets copied.. due to 'non distructive feature' of iMHD6 ..
a) set iM's prefs to smaller chunks on import
b) import just parts instead of tapes..
c) ... or, instead of copy/paste, select Export/Quicktime/FullQuality, which is a lossless copy of the clip.. and just the clipe ..

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