[MacDV] Importing from DVD

[Mark M. Florida]

You can always digitize again from the DVD, but you will lose A LOT of 
quality since the DVD is highly compressed MPEG-2.

I'd say burn the edited version to DVD and keep the original tapes 
around if you ever need the footage again.

Or...  You could use Toast 7's new "spanning" feature and burn your 
iMovie and iDVD projects across multiple discs.  Toast 7 will break up 
large files/folders into chunks small enough to fit on a CD-R or DVD-R, 
and it puts a little restore app on each disc in the set for restoration 
of the whole archive or individual files or folders.  I haven't tried 
this first-hand yet, but hope to soon when my company gets around to 
getting the upgrade.  :-)

- Mark

Billy M wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> Newbie question, but I searched the old posts and found nothing to help me.
> 
> I have finished up 2 large (hard drive eating) iMovie/iDVD projects.  
> The projects have been burned and I am about to delete the files.  My 
> question:  If I wanted to reuse some of that video in a future project, 
> would I be able to get it from the DVD or do I need to save the 
> originals?  If I can get the video from the DVD, how do I go about doing 
> that?  If I need to save it, what is the best way to do that.
> 
> Thoughts?  Comments?
> 
> Thanks as always,
> -- 
> Billy M
> 
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