Project due soon. Need best Easy Setup Choice with limited drive space

Help!
I have three six minute videos due by 3/22. I am just beginning with FCP. Here's my question...
My media drive has 300gig available. With approximately 250 minutes of source material to digitize I fear I may run too low on space capturing uncompressed. I am digitizing with the AJA IO. My source material is 90 percent Beta, and 10 percent MiniDV from a GL2 via firewire.
Should I …..
A) use the “Offline RT NTSC”setting and then redigitize only the sequence material needed? When I try this, I get a warning that reads; “UNABLE TO LOCATE EXTERNAL DEVIVE…APPLE FIRE WIRE 720X480”.
B) use "AJA IO – NTSC 8 bit to Offline RT". Since my show will be projected, I really would like the end result to be as high quality as possible. However, when I use this setting, my footage is unrendered in my time line. When I confirm the settings under AUDIO/VIDEO SETTINGS, the Capture setting reads: AJA-IO ypbpr Betacam 8-bit NTSC US to Offline NTSC (Photo JPEG)”
What am I doing wrong? I hope I explained this well. I’m confusing myself at this point.
Thank you

This forum is FCExpress.
Try the FCP forum, a couple of clicks away.
Al

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