Compressing media files

[Chris S. Newell]

What about 'Disk Copy'?  I use it all the time.  Just drag your files and
folders and create a disk image.  More often then not the image is is
compressed.  Then just burn the .dmg file onto disk.

>Message-ID: <4013B8D5.AB494455 at comcast.net>
>Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 06:38:49 -0600
>From: R B Williams <brucewll at comcast.net>
>Subject: [MacDV] Re: Compressing media files
>
>Can you output to mini DV and send that instead? Compressing media files
can be a
>gamble.
>
>Alternately, you can save some of the files on one DVD, and others on a
second. It will
>work fine as long as the client transfers all of the media into the
proper folder on
>his
>Mac before opening the project.
>
>R. B.
>
>"E. Bond Francisco" wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'll bet this has been talked about many times, but I can't get to the
> list Archive site, so I'll ask it:
>
> I've captured 4.82 G of media from an SVHS tape for a client and put
> them in an iMovie project. The client wants me to move the files onto a
> DVD that he can read on his Mac, OSX 10.2, imovie 3. I'm using iMovie
> 4. The client then wants to be able to edit the movie on his own Mac,
> using iMovie3 or FCE. So the deal was, I would just burn the whole
> darned project (QT movie, Project File and Media) onto a DVD.
>
> So, guess what, the DV holds 4.7G! Arrgghhhh! So now I'm trying to
> figure out how to compress the actual media files so that I can put
> them on the DVD and send them off. I attempted to ZIP them up in
> Stuffit Deluxe 8, but it choked.  Any clues? What's the best way to
> compress these media files?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bond