My iMovie library is empty but huge!

I am on an iMac 2010 running Yosemite 10.10.5, with 500 GB of memory and iMovie 10.

I got a message saying that my hard drive was full.   The investigation that I was surprised to find that my iMovie library represents half of my hard drive use.  I've been trawling though questions about the community how iMovie 10 and problems people have been seen and found some good stuff.  As a result, I moved videos using Finder on an external drive.  In iMovie I moved everything out of the iMovie Trash library. Who freed some space, although I fear that the problem of space happen just when I reload the videos in iMovie. After doing all that iMovie library always uses 234 GB of memory and I don't see not what is in it - when I go into iMovie library in iMovie and click on "All clips" there is nothing there.  Finder does not show me what is in the iMovie library, it just tells you how many GB used.

So I have two questions please:

1. How will I know what is in my library from iMovie?

2. How do I, then move elsewhere to free up space on the hard drive?

Tips welcome!

David

"In iMovie, I all moved from the iMovie Trash library" what exactly have you moved and how?

To see what is in your iMovie library made a right click on it and select "show the contents of the package.   The "original media files contain raw clips and stills.  Don't change anything in it with the Finder, only using iMovie.

If you upgraded from iMovie 9 you still have iMovieprojects and imovieevents under records / films.   Any medium of origin in imMvie 9 and 10 iMovie files and libraries is deleted only when the two are deleted.

iMovie creates a large number of additional files, and whoever does a significant amount of video editing is ultimately what will put their library (ies) on an external drive.

Geoff.

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