(skip to bold if in a hurry )i am capturing files in huffy and then editing in Premiere.

the problem is the biggest block on HDD space i have is my 80 gig RAID (or an 80gig single disk)

so a huffy file thats like 50 gigs and then editored (adding effects, other files and transitions) and then exported into Huffy again doesnt fit.

i want to do the final encode and add filters in VD.

from your experiences, how much of a quality loss would i get if i:

exported a DivX file and then re-encoded it in VD adding filters, back to DivX again, with same compression settings ???

or any other better suggestions for what i am doing??