How much hard drive is HD using, I'm confused.

On a small project, footage shot with my Sony HDR-HC3, my editor said the massive hard drive space needed to capture the Raw footage is due to HD. If I had shot the footage on say a GL1 Canon it would need only 1/2 or less of the hard drive space.
But I've seen this contradicted by other people who say it's becuase of AIC -- Apple Intermedia Codec, that creates such huge files. What is lowdown on disk space shooting on HD (mini DV tape) with an HD camcorder vs shooting mini DV on a Standard Camcorder like the GL1 or 2.

Shane Ross wrote:
Don't capture AIC, Capture HDV native.
Shane
Doesn't that depend on what the deliverable is?
I can't imagine too many scenarios where its a good idea to capture HDV natively, unless your going back to HDV tape. But if your going to just about any other format, SD-DVD, Blu-Ray DVD, uncompressed SD or any web format I'd choose either AIC for the lower resolutions and ProRes for any HD distribution.
Especially now that you can capture directly into ProRes from HDV via firewire.

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