Best way to deal with AVI clips taken with stills cam?

we have a nikon S70 consumer camera which also takes video clips; these clips are .AVI format.
I thought it would be smart to convert them to QT format, but a 1.5GB clip became a 38-GB monster!
What would be the best way to get these .avi clips into my FC Studio workflow so that I can edit, color correct, etc., so that I can burn them to DVD?
this little cam offers several video formats, like HD (720) and a couple of formats it calls "TV" which appear to be 640x480...at least some of them are those dims.
thanks!
rc

Like the ubiquitous QuickTime .mov file type, AVI is just a wrapper or container; the video contained within could be made from any number of codecs.
Convert the AVI files to the codec that will match your FCP Sequence settings - prior to importing it into your FCP project.
-DH

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