[MacDV] DVD pointers?

[Harry Huff]

On Jul 28, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Dorothy Hennings wrote:

> I have a 1.5 hr imovie4 on my external HD. When I use iMovie on my 
> boot internal drive on my iMac everything runs ok.
> When I try to make a DVD from iMovie4, and the encoding is proceeding, 
> I note that my external HD is really working. Does this mean the DVD 
> is getting the data from the  external HD and not from the iMovie in 
> the viewer?
> Is the iMovie one has in the viewer just a bunch of pointers rather 
> than a transfer of copied data from the external HD?
>
> George

Yes.  Unless you copy it to your internal drive and point your DVD 
burner there, that's the only place it exists... iMovie is just reading 
it from there to play it, not moving it.

HTH
Harry