Quick TIme file size is huge!

I was trying to see what is eating up space on my hard drive and downloaded Disk Inventory X .0 which works great. But is showed that my Quick Time folder had 16GB excluding the 32GB of videos in another folder. What could the QT files be?
Thanks!

Impossible for anyone here to say without more details. What are the files named?

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Thanks!

Under File>Export> I'm choosing "Movie to QuickTime movie" and want to know under the "Options" button, the best combination of settings to create a file that is under 6 or 7mb with the best quality given the desired size.
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Okay, the dimensions on one of my files is 720x480.
the codec i am using is DV/DVCpro - NTSC, Integer
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http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
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Message was edited by: Girshon Rutstein

First of all thank you all you guys for your help! Secondly Apple webmasters should fix the problem with solve and helpful buttons. It gives an error.
iMovie has no problem to read this file.
Yes Final Cut Pro is a sensitive tool. This is not the first time I am running into this kind of issues. Last week I created a particle Illusion effect as HD mov file
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Thanks again!
Message was edited by: Girshon Rutstein

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