Trying to understand relative file sizes

I have a 19 second clip (ACVHD MTS file) that i'm experimenting with. It's 23MB in size. 1440x1080i
I used VoltaicHd to convert the MTS file into AIC. The result of that conversion was a file 284MB in size (and apparently 1920x1080i -- not sure how that happened)
I then bring the clip into FCE for the purpose of immediately exporting it. and the final product is 162MB in size (it's a 19second clip!) which I think works out to about 30GB per hour!
I'm obviously doing something seriously wrong --- Perhaps there's an online resource that I could be directed to to make sense of all these conversions etc. Otherwise I'm at a loss on how to proceed. Obviously there's no way I can export a 30GB movie.
Thanks in advance

The necessity of an intermediate format for editing makes perfect sense, thanks for clarifying that. However, what I remain confused about, is that once my editing job is finished in FCE and I want to prepare my video for say upload to my AppleTV, I'm stumped.
My sense from the conversations on this thread is that there's yet another process after FCE that I will need to follow, perhaps using iDVD (Which is unfortunate, since I recently got rid of our DVD player in favor to an Apple TV box in the living room)
To follow your analogy, now that I'm finished editing how do I go from WAV back to MP3

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Hi,
I have a project that when published was coming out with the .swf at about 15.9MB. This is in Captivate 7.0.1.237 with the following settings (defaults I believe):
Compress Full motion recording swf file - unchecked
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So I tried unchecking Retain Slide Quality and set the Bmp to 8-bit. 5.7 MB output which seemed to make sense for what the project is, but yuck - aliased images and some weird color fringing on single line edges. Then I tried High(24 bit) and my project is still only 5.7 MB, so I guess there are very few things in my project that it was actually adjusting down (probably only .png files, not the pictures which are .jpg). I see that previously my individual slides are set to Optimize, which I would expect would have been giving me a smaller sized project all along when it was using Retain Slide Quality Settings. Hmmm...
Then I tried unchecking Advanced Project Compression to see if it would give me a bigger size... nope, still at 5.7 MB. It would seem that leaving this unchecked would be a good thing, if it doesn't do anything. Any reason to check this if it isn't reducing file size?
What are best practices here? It seems to me that unchecking Retain Slide Quality Settings, unchecking Advanced Project Compression and putting the Bmp to High (24 bit) is the best option for my project. But why isn't optimized more optimized? And what am I loosing in those 10 MB of .swf? Am I loosing quality or stability somewhere that I haven't noticed yet?
Thanks for any insight. I'm still scratching my head.

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I usually find that using High 24bit compression actually gives lower file sizes than using the Optimized setting. Go figure...

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Help needed with a basic question:
The disk space size shown in the info panel for an app: What is it a measure of?
Does it represent, and should it be the same as, the size of the app's package contents folder?
I have several apps whose sizes shown in their info panels are Much less than the sizes of their corresponding package contents folders.
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8.0K /applications/preview.app/Contents/Resources/da.lproj/PDFSearchPanel.nib
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8.0K /applications/preview.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/PVPDFPageNumberPanel.n ib
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292K /applications/preview.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/PDFDocument.nib
8.0K /applications/preview.app/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/PDFSearchPanel.nib
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As suggested in the response to my prior question, one of the areas I could use help with for comparing FCP with our access studio's current Media 100 systems is the relative files sizes that can be expected with each. As I mentioned before, the feedback we got from our high school was that FCP seems to create very much larger working files than Media 100. Is that a fair comparison?
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OK, that is a helpful start.
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capture it using one of it's codecs?
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