PowerBook - basic mac user question re iMovie and hard drives

mrkc · mrkc #1 (**permalink**)

11-06-2008, 06:42 AM

I am pretty useless on my mac so please forgive my stupidity. I have an old G4 powerbook and there is only about 5 gb left on my hard drive. I have bought a 500 gb separate hard drive. I have recently installed iLife becasue I want to use iMovie to upload loads of videos I have taken and I want to edit. Since I dont have much space on my hard drive when I try to upload more video i get a message telling me my start up disk is full. How can I use the space free on my new drive to load and store the videos within iMovie?

B&O · B&O #2 (**permalink**)

11-06-2008, 06:48 AM

Burn them on to DVD?

mrkc · mrkc #3 (**permalink**)

11-06-2008, 07:33 AM

yeah but I want to upload them, edit them then burn them later.....

B&O · B&O #4 (**permalink**)

11-06-2008, 09:00 AM

Why can't you burn it and then edit them one by one from the DVDs? The only way to make space is to delete. Garageband takes a tone of space so does iLife.

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Member Since: May 18, 2007 Location: Brit in Tokyo. Posts: 745 Mac Specs: MBP i7, Mac Mini & iPhone 3G.	11-06-2008, 09:00 AM Why can't you burn it and then edit them one by one from the DVDs? The only way to make space is to delete. Garageband takes a tone of space so does iLife. MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz i7. Mac Mini 2.26Ghz C2D iPhone 3G 16GB iPad 3G 64GB Check out my flickr
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mrkc #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 06, 2008 Posts: 4	11-06-2008, 06:42 AM I am pretty useless on my mac so please forgive my stupidity. I have an old G4 powerbook and there is only about 5 gb left on my hard drive. I have bought a 500 gb separate hard drive. I have recently installed iLife becasue I want to use iMovie to upload loads of videos I have taken and I want to edit. Since I dont have much space on my hard drive when I try to upload more video i get a message telling me my start up disk is full. How can I use the space free on my new drive to load and store the videos within iMovie?
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