IDVD 08 OneStep DVD Default Capture Folder Gone?

Was burning a dvd with OneStep - worked great, until I ran out of space on my hard drive to continue. The program stopped with the 'not enough space to complete the import' message, then froze. I forced quit, but it looks like iDVD kept all of the capture footage from the unfinished import in a secret location.
I looked in the 'Preferences' - "Advanced" tab for the OneStep capture location, and it had a strange looking file path listed: something like: /var/folder/E/+Emslkjrjslk98 (didn't write down the last part). I changed the path to my external hdd so I had space to capture, but how do I find this original default file location to delete the captured footage from before? (And no, there isn't a folder named "var" in the root of my Macintosh HD.)
Running iDVD 08, in Leopard, on a new MacBook Pro. Any help much appreciated!

iDVD One step stores the files in temp memory / location .... so you will need to empty the trash and shut down the mac. And then power back up again. Start again and make sure you have adequate HD space.

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