Backing up my DVD SP / Final Cut Pro project

I have an external HD of 250 Gb, but this is insufficient to store all the data of my various video/DVD projects. So, when I have finished a video project and burned the final DVD, after some time I delete the .MOV, .M2V, .AIF etc. files which were all part of it. After all, I now can copy my own DVD.
I also delete the .FCP and .DSPPROJ files, even though they don't occupy much space. For my Panasonic videocam I have to use Capture Now (in FCP), so little chance to restore the whole project as it was.
Still, I think this is hardly satisfying. Every now and then, I see an old DVD and I would like to add something, e.g. a subtitle stream or a audio stream. Or make another little edit.
Is not there a way to make a back up of a DVD SP or FCP project in its original state, which does not take more space than the DVD where the whole thing in the end is burned on? Or, let's say, a couple of DVD's? Buying another extra HD for this is no option, because of the cost.

If you have encoded your video and audio assets in Compressor then they should be separate .m2v and AC3/AIFF files along with your DVDSP project in the same folder. Because these files are already compressed, most of the time the folder with the DVDSP proj and assets would fit on a 4.7 GB DVD-R disk.
DVDSP has issues with pathnames to assets, so if you copy a proj and assets to another drive you'll have to go in and relink all the assets, but that doesn't take too much time if you know where everything is.
With FCP you're pretty much out of luck with a project of any size. The only way I can imagine you'd be able to re-edit a FCP project once you've trashed all the capture files, etc would be to have exported the project as a full quality Quicktime movie as a .dv file. It will be a big file, with an hour-long project ending up at about 10 GB QT movie.
I do this with all my FC projects, because I can't afford, like you, to tie up so much HD space with capture files, etc. but I want a self-contained movie that I can stick somewhere. You may also be able to print your project back out to videotape, and then if you want to mess with it you can recapture.
Hope this helps.

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