Transferring clips between projects

I have an imovie project which is 15.92 GB. It concists of 1hr 13 mins of footage copied from 50 yr old 8mm film. Several families have interest, each in parts only, of the project. I have created two new projects and have been pulling small clips from the original into the docks of the new projects. Alas one is already 75 GB for 17 minutes and the other 43 GB for 6 and a half minutes. Needless to say my computer is pretty full. Could someone explain what is going on. It is obviously not the way to go.

My apologies. I have just realised that I am incorrectly posted .I am using IMovie HD 6.0.4

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Frameserver is a no-go in CS4, sadly. Here's hoping the author comes up with a way to make it work. Batch encoding from AME to frameserved AVIs would be awesome, and by awesome I mean totally sweet.
Courtney, make sure that your destination sequence has the same kind of audio tracks as the source sequence, ie. stereo. I think PPro should automatically create them if needed, but when it does, they'll be placed below the existing timeline tracks. Even then, you should still hear them on playback...
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Is this possible? I work on a Macbook Pro, using CS4 production premium. How can I move clips between projects in PP CS4?
I KNOW there's a way. Just can't figure it out.
Thanks!

The easiest, IMO, is to Open your source Project and remove everything that will not be needed. Do a Save_As. Import that Save_As Project into your new one. Be sure to then twirl open the Bins, and Dbl-click on the Save_As Project's Timeline.
Hunt
PS I also go to Project and choose Delete Unused (or similar syntax) to clean things up for the Save_As.
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Hello everyone,
I have created a 10 second intro/title graphic clip in Motion and published it to FCPX. I have added this generator sequence to a project's timeline in FCPX. I then added a lower third title set. I have edited my text (font, style, etc) of my lower third text to where I want it. I then created a compound clip of the two parts (title generator and the lower third text element).
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Hi Andy
Thank you for the advice.
I tried your method but there definitely seems to be a fault or glitch in my software. If I highlight a number of connected clips and audio tracks the program will not copy and paste them into the newly created compound clip in my event library.
I therefore decided to do it the slow ay and copy each individual item. This worked fine until I came to the final audio track. No matter how many times I copy this track Final Cut refuses to do this. It always comes up with the previous item I copied. I have retried this and it will copy all the items except one. As you would expect I have done a fair amount of work on this track in the form of equyalisation, a comnpression filter and numerous keyframes on the level to come out with a mix that I am happy with. I cannot however move it from the original project.
I find this totally unacceptable and consider the software to be unfit for purpose as a result. Unfortunately the apple terms and conditions state that all purchases are final and I have no recourse upon them for the fact that it does not work.
I cannot see how an update will fix a problem with my software that is not universal to all users. I believe that I can reinstall it without being charged again but am hesitant to do this for fear of losing the large amount of work that I have put into the project.
My only hope now is to ring the premium rate number for customer support in the unlikely hope that it can be solved this way.
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Should be a simple enough task but, how do I move clips made in one project to another project?

clip media is not conained within a project per se, rather it is referenced by a project, so as long as the media is on the hard disc then it can be referenced by as many projects as you'd like.
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pndrgn wrote:
> Can you Share Scenes between projects?
> I would like to take already created scenes and share
them between files and projects so multiple people can use them as
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