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Un-edited iMovie files to disc

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Hi all,

Quite new to iMovies at the moment, the question I have is what is the best way to store un-edited iMovie files to disc?

I have a newborn baby so I'm obviously recording a lot & I'm now in the process of making a DVD on iMovies ('11) using the best (edited) clips.

I don't really want to lose the un-edited files though, in case I want to view them in the future.

Thanks.
 
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Look in the Movies folder. You should see two folders:
- iMovie Events (video you've imported)
- iMovie Projects (video and other files where you have start to edit a project)

So if you just want to backup the 'raw' unedited source files after importing into iMovie 11 it's the iMovie Events folder you need to backup (or any/all the video files it contains)
 

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