Splitting Large iMovie File into two

I have a recording of a HD video of a play of two acts that I have already loaded into iMovie 6. The total length is about 2 hrs and 20 minutes. I don't think that I can put all of this on a single disk, even with my new MacBook Pro. I haven't encountered any of these double sided disk blanks that I hear about.
So, I planned to put Act one on one DVD disk and Act two on a second one. I have done this previously with no problem (for a non HD video recording using iMovie version 5) , but I don't recall exactly my procedure.
I tried to simply create two new iMovie projects, one for Act I, the other for Act II and import to the respective new files. However, when it starts importing the first act, iMovie says that it will take some 720 minutes! That's a long time, and then there is Act two to import.
Surely, there is a more efficient method of accomplishing this task? Does anyone know?
Thanks; Bill Livesay
Dual G-4 & MacBook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thanks Karl and LargeAl for your good advice:
My total file for the play was about 206 GB. This did not give me much room to duplicate, even on my new 500GB external hard drive. When I tried to drag clips to another project, the times ran very long. Maybe I wasn't doing something right, but don't know. In any case, there was a way around all of this.
It finally occured to me to simply lift Act II from the time line and put it carefull in order on the clip shelves. I then completed the editing of Act I and the DVD part, encoded & burned a DVD to see how it looked on our TV, made a sequence of corrections, and finally got to the task of burning the 50+ copies I needed for the full cast.
With Act I completed, I went back into iMovie and moved the clips in Act I from the time line to the clip shelf, all carefully in order. I moved Act II onto the time line, did all of the editing needed, made a new DVD for Act II (several times) and then ran off the needed 50+ copies of Act II. Surprisingly, even the chapter markers already assigned carried over fine, but appropriately renumbered.
The technique turned out to be pretty simple. But, the large (for me) project involved a large number of hours of careful work
In any case, it's all finally accomplished and I gave the copies to my grand daughter this evening. They had put on a magnificant performance and now have something to study for further improvement - and to just save for looking at in future years.
What we do for grand children!!
Thanks again to Karl and LargeAl for your suggestions.
Gramp

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