[DM-MUG] iMovie Question

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I was hoping to figure this out myself but I have a problem that I need some 
help with.   I've been using iMovie to import and create movies from our 
digital camera.   This has worked fairly well with a few glitches now and then. 
But, I've discovered that a couple of iMovie videos   have imported a few fairly 
large files that I now need to split.   iMovie does not seem to be able to 
actually do this.   I thought that when you cropped a video clip it would 
actually the decrease the video size but it doesn't. It just makes the video 
inaccessible to iMovie.   The original file remains untouched. Is there a utility that 
can actually go in to a dv file and split it into smaller files.   I realize 
that I could go back and reimport clips, and making smaller files but since I 
would have to do this in real time I was hoping for a faster way.   Is the 
video that iMovie creates so proprietary that no other software can touch it?

So why do I need to have smaller files- I bought another external backup 
drive from Seagate (I would not recommend the Western Digital MyBook at this 
time).   Because I want to use the drive with both PC's and our Mac, I am forced to 
use the old ugly DOS FAT32 format.   Obviously, a big drawback to this 
terrible decision is the "no file larger than 4GB" size problem.   I've since 
discovered that I have several files that are over 5 GB from my video importing.   I 
can watch this problem in the future. Most of the time camera files are much 
shorter than the 4 GB limit because we don't normally have the camera 
recording continuously.   If I can't figure out a good solution to this problem I'll 
have to reformat the external backup drive to the normal Mac standard.



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