OneStep: Location of Captured Footage?

Can anyone tell me where the captured footage is stored when I use OneStep? Is it possible to get that footage and use it inside iMovie so I don't have to capture again?
I have not found a definitive answer on where it goes when captured!

I want to access the temporary files created by iDVD in this folder. However, finder does not show it. I used "Delete Encoded Assets" in iDVD. But, I know that there are still temporary files occupaying at least 8-9 GB space. How can I delete all temporary files of OneStep?
OK, I found it. Its in/tmp on your boot drive (or
whichever partition /tmp is mounted on).
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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