imovie-- cleaning up my mac

[hanshoeg]

I have been importing a lot of basketball game dvd's onto my macbook and then transferring them to my external hard drive. I have been importing those dvd's into imovie to create a highlight movie. Now my computer says that I don't have enough room to import any more movies into imovie. After I am done pulling the clips I want from the basketball movies, I delete them from imovie and the only thing left in imovie is the short clips I copied. How do I get my computer to free up the space that those imported dvd's are taking up so I can import movies into imovie for editing?

(Does my question make sense?)

Thanks!

 

[MrCheeto]

Right click an event in the event list in iMovie

"Move deleted items to trash"

 

[hanshoeg]

forgot to mention-- i have imovie 08

don't have the "move deleted items to trash"

i have "move even to trash" and "move rejected clips to trash" as options when i right click on the event in imovie

 

[MrCheeto]

Ah yes, that's the option!

"move rejected clips to trash" will delete all of the clips you've "deleted" or what iMovie calls "rejected".

 

[hanshoeg]

awesome, thanks! exactly what i needed!