And if you're willing to settle for the edited video in uncompressed format, consider copying the finished movie to tape. (You didn't say how long -- in time -- the movie is.) Shirley On Oct 1, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Mark M. Florida wrote: > 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 >> "There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand >> binary and those who don't." >> _______________________________________________ >> MacDV mailing list >> MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >