Video size in iMovie

Hello,
I am importing movies to iMovie and for some reason the size of the movie is six times bigger.
For example: I have a 12MB movie and after I import it and select "Reveal in Finder",
I see that the same movie is now 77MB. Why does it happen?
I select the large and not the full size.
The movie in the example is HD so its resolution is even better than the "large".
I can't understand why it make it 6 times bigger.
Is there anything I can do to change that?
Thank you

The likely answer is that your camera is recording your footage using a compression codec which uses inter-frame compression where any given frame of video may be dependent on other frames.
In order to be able to remove or reorder any frame you want when editing in iMovie the compressed file first needs to unpacked and each frame compressed separately. This accounts for the larger file size you're seeing on import.
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hi,
i want to use imovie for some basic editting and rendering.
i have a load of mov's, captured using snapz pro x at 720x480 that i simply want to import, cut bits out, and export as one file for use in idvd.
i have 2 questions...
1. is there a way, in imovie, to change the end video size? im using 720x480 source files, and when i export as a movie it either crams it into a 640x480, or letterboxes it. i just want the output size to stay the same as the input size (720x480). if not, whats the optimum size people use for tv viewing?
2. the content of my video is pretty intricate. its got a feint grey box in the middle of the screen, which the video plays in (screen in screen basically).
assuming that imovie will only give me 640x480 output, i cropped the clips to 640x480, inputted them, pieced them together, and outputed them. imovie gives me the right size, but really messes up the video. the grey line is blurred and not visible at the bottom, and the moving images themselves look awful.
all i want is to export a video that has the same properties (size, resolution etc) as the input files!
if screen grabs would help, i can put some up.
thanks in advance

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one way i will try is to video out from the laptop into a tv and record with a dvd recorder, see if that helps.
i think its trial and error with the captures. the 720x480 looked pretty good, but the refresh rate was out and it flickered a fair bit. the refresh rate was better on 640x480, but it didnt look as good.
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