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I am new to the iMovie. Trying to collect some movies from my digital camera. I have about 30 movies, that are about 2-3mins long.
What I do is, I get the movies and "load" them from my folder to the iMovie. The thing is so big in size now. I placed about 12 movies and have already around 3Ggs od data. Is that right? Is there anyway I can compress it.
I would like to be able to fit all 30 pieces on 1 DVD-compress it and still be able to view it on TV at reasonable quality.

Please help
 
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You should be able to fit your 30 short videos on a DVD. A standard DVD (single layer) hold about 2 hours of video. 1 minute of video will take about 216mb of disk space. So 30 videos at about 3 minutes each, comes to 90 minutes. So you can get all of video on one DVD. As for raw disk space, you will need at least 19.5GB to hold the data. Once you process (encode) the data is will fit on the DVD.
 
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thank you for responding

How do I encode it after finishing the whole thing?

thanx
 
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What I mean is, what is the best way to export/share the movie?
I am planning to view it on my TV. I am saving it at the highest quality now and I get 9GB of data. I will not be even able to burn it to the DVD, also I am running out of space on my machine...:)
Will the CD quality be OK for viewing on TV?

thanx for any response
 

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