Slideshow export eats hard drive!!!

I am working on my Macbook and I have about 15gb of free hard drive space. As I export my 8 minute slide show to a movie, Iphoto consumes tons of hard drive space, eating up the entire free space and causing the computer to crash. How can a slide show export consume such a massive amount of space? Is there some way to prevent this? Is there some setting that's wrong? I find it hard to believe that this could be normal behavior.

Bit of an update on this. The export used up about 10gb. The resulting file is only about 200mb. After the export, I quit Iphoto and the space on the drive returned! Hurray for that. What I did previously was not quit Iphoto and then open Imovie to import the slideshow. Doing that ate the rest of the memory and caused the crash.
Clearly there is something about exporting a slideshow which results in extraordinary hard drive space being eaten temporarily. I didn't notice this happening before.
Grand Perspective looks daunting. Not sure if it will help me, because I know what's happening, I just don't know why or how to stop it.

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