Hello Long time member posting after about 4 years.

[Knowname]

yeah I made my first vid on 4 gigs, but I'd estimate about 20 gigs to make a clean video using lossless clips, 80 should suffice as long as you only work on one thing at a time (and don't game too much, leaving at least 20 gigs to work with). The MOST I ever used on a single project was like 700gigs. That involved recording 30-40 hours of videogame footage (all for JUST a few minutes of final footage~~) in semi-lossy codecs. Man I hated that project lol but give big respect to gmv editors that use IN GAME footage.

The thing I'm worried about is your operating system. There is no Premiere Pro 7.0, Premeire went up to 7.0 but the Pro version only got up to 2.0 before they started calling it CS#. The only reason the Pro version is named 'Pro' is cuz it works on Windows XP. I'm not sure if the regular version does or not. THUS IF you have Premiere 7.0 AND use Win9x than I'd be VERY concerned lol. Not for performance sake (well may be some compatibility issues... but you can still get by not using IE8), but for security and crash issues sake. Well perhaps performance if you have over 4gigs of ram... but. Anyway if you have anything other than XP 32bit I'd suggest upgrading.

And if you did you may have to upgrade your Premiere version as well :/.

Just my opinion, you can get by with what you have but if you wanna save yourself some headaches you may want to update a little.

[Knowname]

Bottom line though, if it works on your current setup than your good to go! Heck it's better than some of the WMM made videos out there so if you follow read AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video and other guides nobody will complain if you don't. Others get by on worse. I'm just saying... does that there version even work on your current machine? Don't know if you even have those installed or not so maybe they don't work any more since you got XP/ Vista.

[ngsilver]

pfft, 80gbs... back in the day i edited with <20gbs on a 600mhz laptop... uphill, both ways, in the snow!

Wow, better then what I used to edit on.... P1 133mhz, 5 gig hd.......

[Nya-chan Production]

5GB left free ftw.

Every time I rendered I prayed to have enough space left ^^

[Otohiko]

Oh you can definitely edit on very little space. It's just a question of having your footage and previews the way you want versus the way your HD lets you. You can bait-and-switch on almost nothing or you can subclip your footage to oblivion so that you only save the scenes you'll actually use. But NOT having to do that lets you have swathes of footage and more choice in your subclipping. And more time for editing.