Youre probably looking at the file size of the Project. The media is captured to a different place. The default location is Documents>Final Cut Express>Capture or where ever you set your Capture Scratch folder. regards sb On 4/27/05 10:28 AM, "Richard Meyeroff" <rem at meyeroff-c-c.com> wrote: > A friend of mine has a sony video camera attached to anb iMac Flat > panel using FCE 2. When he has the video on the camera captured and > saved it only has a file of 8 k. He knows that a 2 min. video is > much more than 8k. What is he doing wrong? > > Os is X.3.5 and 1GB of RAM