Not enough disk space left error

I am trying to put a video that is in .mov format into imovie HD and then export that into a DVD file so I can burn it and play it on a DVD player. But right away when I try importing it to edit it it says not enough disk space. I have 18 gigs on the hard drive that I am using right now. Is there any way around this or would the file just become that big or what? Thank you beforehand for any information you can provide.

No that doesen't pretain to my problem I am not having a problem burning the disk or with Idvd at all (yet anyways) just importing it to Imovie without a pointless error that makes no sense. Of corse it does talk about skipping imovie completely by using Idvd which is what I am trying to do now but it takes a very very long time for quicktime to convert files of that size. But I will see if it works and post back again.

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  • There is not enough disk space left to import

    I am in the middle of editing a movie. I have imported two clips and am trying to import a third.
    I have precisely 62.42Gigabytes of hard disk space (I have a 120 Gig HD). The clip I want to import is 1.69 Gigabytes.
    I get the following message:
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    The file could not be imported: There is not enough disk space left to import...
    I tried moving the project to another account on the same computer but that did not work either.
    I have searched through these forums and many others seem to have the same problem but I have yet to find ANY workable solution!
    HELP please!

    The clip I want to import is 1.69 Gigabytes.
    By any chance, is the "clip" a compressed QuickTime movie? If so, when iMovie converts it to DV a 1.69GB movie may expand quite a lot. Please describe the clip.
    And describe the disk the project resides on. Is it an internal disk or external disk?
    Here's some things to check out...
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2920540#2920540
    Karl

  • The file could not be imported: There is not enough disk space left

    The file could not be imported: There is not enough disk space left to import
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    dananarama wrote:
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    If the 500MB mp4 file was highly compressed and iMovie converted it to DV, it's quite possible iMovie would run out of disk space.
    Although 9.5GB sounds like a lot, it's tiny when editing video. (Each hour of video is ~13GB.) When iMovie complains that it can't find the disk space it needs, it's not a good thing. Everything is put in jeopardy. Don't forget that thee Mac OS X itself needs a certain amount of elbow room. When it can't get it, big problems can occur.
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