When I create about an hour video, the intermediate file space is about 20 GB and shrinks to about 4GB at the end of the session.
You may want to look at a hard disk just for the video work. I picked up a new 300GB for 129US just last month so as far as space goes, it's pretty cheap.
Bob
I am in the process of upgrading my computer, and am trying to find out what size hard drive is needed to do video editing. We have a mini DV recorder which connects via firewire. My son has recently learned video editing at school, and wants to start taking video and then editing it and burning it to a DVD at home. I won't be permanently storing the raw footage on the hard drive, but wonder how much hard drive space might be in use during the editing process. I know that bigger is better for hard drive size, but I am on a limited budget. My current hard drive is 20 gig and is about 75% full.
Thanks

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