You deleted everything from your USB key or a drive, so there should be enough free space to copy the new files, but you still get the not enough free space message in Mac OS X? This is what you need to do.
You created your own movie in iMovie but you can't figure it out how to save the darn thing into a playable .mp4 file on your hard drive. I've been there, let me show you how to do that.
If you experience an Mac OS X program to freeze and you cannot exit it by clicking quit or using a keyboard shortcut, you can always force it to quit using the Activity Monitor.
If you are more of a visual person and would like to organize your folders and files using different colors, than check it out how to use color labels in Mac OS X.