Creating my first iMovie

I am new to owning and using a mac and have just got back from a holiday where I took about 3 hrs worth of video footage on miniDv tapes. I would really like to know how to best go about converting this to a iMovie and ulitimately burn it to dvd. I tried importing a small clip and a song from itunes and already the project has become very large about 899mb, and this is only bout 3 min worth. The song itself seems to have become about 40mb.
How do i go about importing and all the clips that i need without running out of space. Ideally i would like to end up with something that is about 40min to an hour long.
Any advice would be great, even if it is where I can look to get more info. Thanks

Hi Groovyg,
welcome to the wonderful and expensive world of video...
you tapes store ~13GB of data per hour... iMovie uses the same codec, so 3 hours = ~40GB... using a PB, think wisely, what to import...
as Matthew said: get a ext. drive... firewire connection is needed, no "excl. made for Mac" needed, go to any PC store - avoid usb2 drives!!! at home, connect drive - by firewire... ahh, said that....- launch from Utilities the Disk Utility and "format" drive as MacOsExtend (the other option is FAT32 = NoGo) and give it a charming name, e.g. "videomorgue"
launching iM, create a new project, choose your ext. drive...- I recommend NOT to import wholes tapes, but do a selection WHILE import.
I highly recommend to do some paperwork - what do I want to show, how? music (=>create a playlist in iTunes, just with the music, you will need in iM)? titles? additional stills (=>create an album in iPhoto with the stills, you will need in iM)/scans/...? THEN start to edit.
concerning disk size:
you need 10 - 15 GB free disk space on your internal drive, just to make iDVD work correctly... don't overcrowed your internal drive ...-
do some reading:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
best practise:
don't start with your "best" project, start with some "trash" project, 5min max, just to get used with all the functions & options...
good luck!!

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