ISight and iMovies Editing Problems (File Size)

I recently used my MacBook Pro to record a live business related training. The trainer was using PowerPoint. After recording, I began to edit by separating some of the audio from the video (which I've done numerous times after recording with DV camera), then deleting some video and inserting some .jpg files of the PowerPoint slides to sync with the audio. But everytime I separated a piece of video from the audio, the file size grew tremendously even after I trashed the unwanted video. Note: my .jpgs were extremely small files. After a while, my file was more that 100 gigs. although it began at about 4 gigs. It got to the point where I couldn't even open the file. Does anyone know why this happens when recording with iSight? Also, I couldn't import even the original file into Final Cut Pro for editing. How do you get the file from iMovies to Final Cut?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Bill
You might be better off posting in the iMovie forum http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141
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