Huge file size when importing clips

When importing clips from my Sony Handycam (HDR TG3E) in HD 1920 X 1080 the file sizes get extremely large. A 10 minute clip results in a filesize (.mov) of approx 8 GB. Is this really meant to be? I use iMovie '08 v. 7.1.4.
Would appreciate any help in adjusting the software or hardware preferences resulting in smaller files.

for editing HiDEf, it gets automtically converted into some 'intermediate' codec, which has ~40-60GBs/h.
on export, these files will get 'shrunk' again..

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Huge file size after importing

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files. I imported only two slides from another project with text
objects only and now the file size jumped from 977k to over 10 Meg.
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