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iMovie is eating my HD space

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OK ... total newbie here , but my wife has been bugging me to get our old 8mm video onto the computer and then on to DVD. I started downloading our tapes and ...WOW.... memory gobbler !:Oops: Is something wrong ? That seems to me to be a lot of DVD's I'll need to convert. Any hints on what I really should be doing would be helpful. BTW , I'm using iMovie 06.

Thanks to any and all help !!
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Well since nobody else has chimed in, I will. Video takes up a lot of room. You should really consider an external hard drive for storage. Secondly, after you have edited your videos and exported them to iDVD to burn them they will be compressed onto the DVD. You will get about an hour of playtime on a standard DVD, I think. What I do after burning DVDs is make a disc image and store that as it is compressed and delete the original files. Then I can make however many DVDs from the saved image I want.
 

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This is rough, but one hour of DV takes about 13 gigabytes, while one hour of HDV video takes from 38-50 gb
 
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Well since nobody else has chimed in, I will. Video takes up a lot of room. You should really consider an external hard drive for storage. Secondly, after you have edited your videos and exported them to iDVD to burn them they will be compressed onto the DVD. You will get about an hour of playtime on a standard DVD, I think. What I do after burning DVDs is make a disc image and store that as it is compressed and delete the original files. Then I can make however many DVDs from the saved image I want.

Thanks..... I'm not sure I know what you mean by making a disc image. I'll search around and may be back later !!

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A disc image is like a virtual disc. When you download a program from the internet you are downloading a disc image. In iDVD you can save as disc image, which is an exact copy of the disc as if it were burnt to a dvd. Information that is burnt to a dvd is compressed. So if your project is finished and will not need to be altered any further you can store the image of the disc for further copies instead of saving the project with all the raw uncompressed files.
 

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