Encore CS3 Project Size

I have recently upgraded to Encore CS3 from 2.0 and when adding MPEG2 files to CS3 that are around the 2gb size the project size goes to 3.7gb however in Encore 2.0 the project size was virtually the same as the MPEG2 file size.
Does anyone know why this is happening?

What is your default Audio codec?
Sounds to me as if it is set to LPCM.......

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