>From: Richard Dalziel-Sharpe <dalshar at optushome.com.au> > > Patty, unless you are really concerned with absolute quality, just >burn them as DVDs. You can then always make a copy from them again >should the need arise. Yeah, I know. But I'm thinking that after doing all the work to edit them, maybe I should keep them around in case there's ever an opportunity to make higher-resolution DVDs. >Sorry I cannot help you with the weirdnesses. The only suggestion >about the internal versus external saving problem is, that if your >internal drive has less than about ten percent of its total space >free and available for the operating system to use for swap files, >OSX wont like it. A reasonable suggestion, but I have nearly half of the disk's 160GB available, so that can't be the problem. Patty