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My imovie project is 134GB. Why please?

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Aia

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I have created an imovie project that is 10 minutes long and is 134GB - I am using up a whole external hardrive just to store it. Another project I have completed recently is also about 10 minutes long, and is 36GB.

Is this normal? (Surely not?) :confused:

Both projects (and especially the first one) consist of quite a lot of short clips...I can only suspect that each clip must somehow be retaining information from its entire source footage- could that be the problem, and if so how is that happening? And if not, what is happening? And how do I stop it from happening?

I need to free up some space on my mac and I can't bin these projects or compress them because they are documentation for a theatre project that I have been working on for ages and I need them to be full quality... Please help!!!
 
You mean multiple copies within the same project file...is that possible?
 
Aia said:
You mean multiple copies within the same project file...is that possible?
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it could be, it seems very unlikely though..

if you go to your project in the Finder, right click on it and go "Show Package Contents" it will show you your whole project. have a look around in there and see if you can see any doubles.

in imovie can you go into a single clip and try find out how big it is? maybe its using some wierd high high definition quality???
 
Which version are you using? In iMovie 06 (and I assume later ones) there was a Trash feature which was where your changes went. This has to be emptied regularly...
 
Hi - Thanks. I think it is HD (I think....)
I have looked at package contents (thanks, didn't know I could do that)- there are two files with the same name, but they are tiny. The media folder shows each clip and each individual clip (most of which are under 3 mins long, some of them are just seconds long) is at least a couple of GB... so thats the problem I guess. Anyone knw how that is happening?
 
Could be uncompressed HD + render files (does iMovie render, or is it real time effects?, haven't used it properly since iMovie 6), OP did you add any effects to your film?
 
Aia said:
Hi - Thanks. I think it is HD (I think....)
I have looked at package contents (thanks, didn't know I could do that)- there are two files with the same name, but they are tiny. The media folder shows each clip and each individual clip (most of which are under 3 mins long, some of them are just seconds long) is at least a couple of GB... so thats the problem I guess. Anyone knw how that is happening?
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oh wow righto, it would be great if you could screen shot a few pictures of that folder and post them so we could help out a tad more. :apple: + Shift + 4 will let you take a screen shot, click and drag your mouse to create a box around the slected area. once you let go the picture will be taken. it default saves to your desktop

oh and what version of iMovie is it??

Schtumple said:
Could be uncompressed HD + render files (does iMovie render, or is it real time effects?, haven't used it properly since iMovie 6)
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i dont know tbh, i only use iMovie 6, but AFAIK imovie6 doesnt add any other files at all..
 
Hi - sorry to vanish - my internet conection collapsed... I just need to catch up here...
 
uh...I feel a bit of a dunce, but I don't really know how to check that. I have it set to high quality for playback though.
 
Aia said:
uh...I feel a bit of a dunce, but I don't really know how to check that. I have it set to high quality for playback though.
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up the top silly!!!

(DV-PAL) is my setting
 

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