Why all the copies of files in Projects?

Looking at the folders in 'Movies' they seem fairly self-explanatory:
'iMovie Events' - contains folders of imported event clips
'iMoview Projects' - contains the current and saved projects
'iMovie Sharing' - seems to hold copies of exports to iTunes in a folder named after the appropriate project, maybe YouTube stuff goes here too but I don't have an account. Not .Mac Gallery movies though.
Anyhow looking at a project folder that is 184.3MB size, 182.3MB of that is taken up my 3 movies:
tiny.3gp
mobile.m4v
large.m4v
The tiny/mobile files are what got uploaded to my .Mac account, and the large.m4v is identical to an m4v file which I exported to AppleTV.
So, what's the problem?
Well, why do I need the copies of things uploaded to .Mac shouldn't they have been deleted after upload?
Why do I need 3 copies (4 if I was syncing the AppleTV) of the large.m4v file?
There's one, large.m4v in the project folder, one in the iTunes subfolder of iMovie sharing, with the actual exported one in my iTunes library (I've checked using Show in Finder).
So for a 6 minute clip of video I've probably got 320MB effectively of 'copies', so it looks as though this application will eat drive space like there's no tomorrow.
Am I missing something or an unselected Preference?
AC

So for a 6 minute clip of video I've probably got 320MB effectively of 'copies', so it looks as though this application will eat drive space like there's no tomorrow.
iMovie '08 operates on a new model as I've said elsewhere in this forum.
DV video is no longer the prefered format for storage - your 6 minute clip would require 1.3 GB if it was in DV form. iMovie '08 is designed to make all your clips easily accessable. You will probably want to store your 'Events' on external drives, and iMovie '08 supports this.
We all have a lot to learn to learn about how to work with iMovie '08.
F Shippey

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