80GB of "Other" Disk Space?

Hello,
I am experiencing an issue with hard drive space with my new Macbook Pro 13" 128GB Running OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Under the storage tab is "About This Mac" it says I have used up 84.67GB of disk space in the blue "Other" category. Because I edit lots of videos with Final Cut Pro X and record with Logic Pro X, I use lots of disk space and need as much storage as I can use. How can I find out what is taking up all of that storage, and how do i delete it? Below I have attached an image for you to get a better idea of what I'm saying.
Thank you for all of your help,
- Jake

First, upgrade to Yosemite 10.10.2 by downloading and installing OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Combo Update. Second, open Spotlight preferences, click on the Privacy tab, then drag the Desktop icon for the HDD into the list. Wait 30 seconds, select the disk in the list and click on the Delete [-] button. This will force Spotlight to re-index the hard drive. Wait until indexing is complete which may take an hour or so. Then recheck storage.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
  1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
  2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
  3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
  4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
  5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
  6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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