The final cut pro application is GIANT 143.9 GB

Hi Folks,
I've set up a new MacPro QuadCore as an edit station, and I'm having some difficulty getting the Caldigit HD one to work with it. I'm still working with Caldigit on that.
Likely as a side effect of the machine hanging mid render several times due to the raid array going offline bad things are beginning to happen.
All capture / render / autosave files are set to the array, as are project files, so essentially nothing significant is being written to the boot drive.
However my boot drive filled up for no known reason, and when digging through with drive genius I noticed that the final cut pro application itself is now listed as 143.9 G.
Ahhh OK.
Do I have to flatten and reinstall or is there a simpler solution.
How in the world did the app itself get that big?
BTW DiskWarrior etc. report the hardware of the boot drive to be fine, the directory structure and permission to be good.
Thanks,
Steve

It has happened before that when the scratch disk does a disappearing act, FCP will sometimes stuff renders inside the FCP program container.
In the Applications folder, Right click on FCP and go to SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS. Once inside, start looking around for very large .mov files.
You can safely delete them.
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