importing movies in to iMovie

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

Barry - I am pretty new at working with movies on my G4 Powerbook, 
but it is something I want to get in to.  I am trying to use Mac 
technology to make some snappy Keynote presentations, with movie 
clips, for lectures and short courses that I am preparing.


I have a video (20 min) that I imported yesterday from VCR to my hard 
disk, using eyeTV.
One click to save to the hard disk - pretty impressive by the way.
I then exported the saved file as a QT movie, 400 Mb.

Now, I want to work with the imported movie, edit it, add captions, 
sound etc etc.
iMovie seems the right software to do this.
I have a little experience with iMovie, using short video clips.
Most of it is pretty intuitive.

My problem now is that I cannot get the import of this new Quicktime 
movie (.mov) in to iMovie to complete.

Each time it says that there is not enough disk space.  Yet I have 
more than 1.8 Gb free on all the disk partitions.   I have tried 
moving the Project folder, the source file, etc.  Tried dragging to 
import, using the Import function to import.  Always the same 
message, after a minute or two.

Is there something else I need to know?
Or is this another verion of the "disappearing disk space", I wonder?

If you have any experience, tips or ideas, it would be of great help.


Trevor