Scratch disk for Render Full

I have been trying to print to video with an HDV project that is about 24 minutes long and I get the error message "Print to video failed. Your scatch disk for video render is full." I have emptied out the render file folder, but that did not help. To see if it was the sheer size of the task, I set my in & out to about 30 seconds of the project and I was able to send it to the tape. How can I free up space to do this? How much space do I need? I now have about 36 gb of a 148 gb hard drive free after doing some cleaning up. Thanks for your help.

OK, 24 mins of HDV is going to require 20-25GB to render, plus something for overhead, so figure on about 35-35GB.
You need to methodically go through that drive and remove/delete things you don't need anymore.
Check your Final Cut Express Documents folder first - you may have clips & render files from previous projects taking up space. Ditto for videos you may have exported over time and forgot about, iDVD projects, DVD disk images, etc.
Also, what else do you have on that drive that you don't need to keep anymore?
And, don't forget your system HD. If it's more than about 80% full (minimum 30-40GB free) it's time to clean out that drive, too.
And remember to Empty Trash after you delete files; otherwise they're still hanging around.

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