"Permanently" Crop Clips?

I would like to "permanently" crop and/or split video clips while editing raw video within iMovie. I have been editing sports video (e.g. soccer game action) for highlight movies where I typically need only a small fraction of the video for the finished product. My problem with iMovie is that the full content of cropped clips remains, filling up my drives with gigabytes of unwanted video. I want to delete the trimmings when I am sure I have the final edited clip.
I always keep a copy of the raw footage as backup, so I am not worried about restoring edited portions of clips. A 20 minute finished highlight movie might be about 16-18 Gb, of which about 10-12 Gb is trimmed video. That's a lot of precious hard drive space and it makes handling the movie cumbersome.
Is there a hidden way to achieve this within iMovie, or perhaps a workaround, or might I need a third party software to solve my problem?

Welcome to the forum, 2Ns.
When a project has multiple clips — so that exporting each to a Full Quality movie is a nuisance — the simplest solution is usually to export the Timeline back the camera, then import from the camera to a new iMovie project. The clips you exported from Project A will normally return as discrete clips in Project B. Clips such as transitions and titles will no longer be editable, of course.
This purge is best done before you add transitions, titles and other edits. Import the original video to Project A, discard the clips you don't want, export Project A to camera, re-import to Project B, then discard Project A.
If for some reason the clips you export from Project A don't return as discrete clips in Project B, here's a workaround to force it to happen: In Project A, create a five-second "Black" clip (a placeholder clip), change it to a highly-noticeable color like pink, drag the pink clip to the Clips pane, then Option-drag a copy to between each of your video clips on the Timeline, then export to the camera. When you re-import to Project B the video clips will all be separated by a pink clip, forcing iMovie to deliver each video clip as a discrete clip. Select all the pink clips, hit the Delete key, and only your discrete clips remain.
The pink clip workaround usually isn't necessary. It's useful if the original video had no time code. If it was imported from a VHS tape, for example. Test this workaround with your camera before relying on it.
Karl
Tip: The export tape is valuable. It is your best backup, containing only the clips you want to retain. (Letting you re-use the original tape.) Before exporting Project A to the tape, consider adding a title describing the event — "1/5/2007 Graettinger vs. Ruthven, Away". If you can add multiple games to the tape, consider printing a tape index on the box. I've used a searchable database to catalog tapes and print labels.
(Do NOT be tempted to record the export at slow speed. The tape may not play reliably in other cameras.)

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