How to backup an iMovie project that is too large for the dvd?

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How to backup an iMovie project that is too large for the dvd?

This may be obvious, and it was probably answered elsewhere, but I'm trying to clean off my hard drive by saving my iMovie projects to two sets of dvds (one for home and one set for safekeeping at work). When saving one project as an archive, it just says this project is too large for a disc. Is it possible to stuff it as a .sitx file and then save that onto dvd? Is there a better solution than an external hard drive (which I've had a couple of fail on me).

Power Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iMovie HD 5

Posted on Apr 17, 2008 7:26 AM

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QuickTimeKirk

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Apr 17, 2008 8:27 AM in response to mrholder

Back up to a Firewire connected hard drive (properly formatted for Mac OS).

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mrholder Author

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Apr 17, 2008 8:57 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

I was hoping to be able to just save it to dvd.

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Apr 17, 2008 9:11 AM in response to mrholder

DVD's can only hold about 4.7 GB's of DV Stream format (the format used by iMovie).
DV Stream is 13 GB's per hour of recording so it would take 3 DVD's to "store" your data for a one hour capture.
"Export" (back to tape) or use iDVD to "burn" an MPEG-2 version of your file.
Only the "tape" version would not require some type of conversion on import.

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