Huge Movies?

I recently imported about an hour of video footage (from a Hi8 camera), and it somehow resulted in a project about 120GB in size. The frame rate and all that looks good... any ideas of what might cause this? I'm probably missing something obvious.
Thanks,
Everett

If you add 10 effects/titles (after each other) to each and every clip you will get your 120GB. That is called non-destructive editing: You should be able to undo every step you made.
If that isn't the case, I have no idea.

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I'm making tiny animations in Photoshop, (72dpi greyscale 10cm x 10cm, approx 2 seconds length, filesize around 22k). I then export from Photoshop at the default setting, Quicktime in .mov format.
Ah, a classic example of Photoshop thinking! It's time to think in After Effects.
Forget all about dpi. The concept doesn't exist in AE. Photoshop only utilizes it as a handy guide for common video resolutions, and it's becoming less useful every day. AE deals in PIXELS: the number of horizontal pixels and vertical pixels in a comp. DPI is completely irrelevant.
Here's an example: In Phiotoshop at 400 DPI, a 1-inch x 1-inch image has dimensions of 400x400 pixels. At 100 DPI, a 4-inch x 4-inch image has dimensions of 400x400 pixels. Imported into AE, both images are precisely the same size: 400x400 pixels
And if DPI means, "dots per INCH", it must be tough to work in metric linear measures like centimeters, n'est-ce pas?
I then export from Photoshop at the default setting, Quicktime in .mov format.
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