Not Enough Disk Space Left

I'm trying to make a highlight film to send to colleges for football and im using imovie hd. I've imported 2 game films onto a project from a usb jump drive and made 15-20 7 second clips from them. Then I've deleted the big game film files from the project. I'm trying to import another game film, but everytime I do it says "Error during import. The file could not be imported: There is not enough disk space left to import gamefilm.mp4"
I thought maybe it was because I didn't have enough space on my hard drive. But it says there's 1 GB left on my drive. Each film is about 225 MB. Plus I loaded the film from the jumpdrive to the harddrive with no problems. Then I thought it might be there's not enough room on the project. So I opened a new one, but its the same problem. How do I import the new film...?

Welcome to the forums.
It sounds like you're encountering a problem when iMovie converts the file from the USB drive Presumably the game film is very compressed on the jump drive, but iMovie converts video into a format it can use (at about 13 gigs per hour). A gig on your hard drive means that you deperately need more hard drive space.
Once you free up more space for import, you've solved only part of the problem because burning your project to DVD will take gigs more space. Over in the iDVD forum, you'll see recommendations for 10-20 gigs of free space for burning a DVD.
Besides this project, your computer needs space to function effectively. Some folks say we need 10% free, but that's a lot of space on a big drive. I start to worry if I have less than 10 free gigs for everyday use; more if I'm doing a video project.
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