Saving Small Clips & Memory

Great place for help...here goes again!
I am going through 15 years of tapes and making a backup DVD of each one for archive. Fine and dandy...and quite fun.
I am trying to save various 1-10 minute clips from these 50 tapes (now in iMovie ) to pull together something for grandmas.
So, when I save a 1 min clip (and sending to a new project that I'm building up), I guess the computer (in the new project) is saving the entire clip/segment it came from--not just the 1-2 minutes I had edited. In some cases, this is 1 hour (PS: When I import tape from older analog 8mm format it does not make automatic chapters....I could import 60 minutes with some 20 scenes, it adds it to iMovie as one 60 min clip...I have to then cut and splice and add chaptesr later).
So.....if I have a one hour iMovie, and wish to export one 2 min clip to another project, and takes a ton of memory, and my new proj. is approaching 60 GIG.
I REALIZE I could save the new clips in quick time. But is there a way to save these smaller clips in the highest of quality and export them to the newer project I am building up?
Jon
G5 Desktop Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I REALIZE I could save the new clips in quick time.
But is there a way to save these smaller clips in the
highest of quality and export them to the newer
project I am building up?
Select the clip in iMovie and Share it to a Full Quality movie. In the Share dialog, turn on the checkbox "Export selected clips only". That exports only the clip, not its entire source file.
Later, import that movie to your grandmas project.
Theoretically, you can export a single clip to tape that way too. Sometimes the export fails to stop at the selected clip, so you have to stop it manually.
That's a good way to use the method Bengt suggested which may be easiest, and it saves disk space. Start a new grandmas tape, and export all the grandmas clips to that tape as you encounter them. Later, import the grandmas tape to a new grandmas project.
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