Backing up events in iMovie 08 to DVD
Hello,
Just purchased a new iMac and am just learning iMovie. I was wondering if some of you iMovie experts might have some advice for me. Here's the situation:
Before leaving for vacation last weekend I imported a bunch of video off our camcorder into iMovie 08. We have one of those hard drive based camcorders which had about 20 hours or so of video stored on it that I had not done anything with, so I had to clear it out before leaving to make room for new stuff.
iMovie imported everything as events and all was well. All I did was import the video - I did not make any projects or anything like that.
After returning from vacation, I find that I am going to have to re-format my hard drive and re-install Leopard using the "Erase and Install" option (for reasons unrelated to iMovie).
So the big question is - How can I back up the movie files (events) that I imported before I left, to a DVD? I was able to find an option in iPhoto under "Share" and then "Burn", which allows you to burn a copy of your iPhoto Library to CD/DVD and then re-import those photos back to your library - but I was unable to find a similar option for iMovie 08.
If I can't find a way to back all these imported camcorder videos up, my wife will kill me. 🙂
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
-RJ
Just purchased a new iMac and am just learning iMovie. I was wondering if some of you iMovie experts might have some advice for me. Here's the situation:
Before leaving for vacation last weekend I imported a bunch of video off our camcorder into iMovie 08. We have one of those hard drive based camcorders which had about 20 hours or so of video stored on it that I had not done anything with, so I had to clear it out before leaving to make room for new stuff.
iMovie imported everything as events and all was well. All I did was import the video - I did not make any projects or anything like that.
After returning from vacation, I find that I am going to have to re-format my hard drive and re-install Leopard using the "Erase and Install" option (for reasons unrelated to iMovie).
So the big question is - How can I back up the movie files (events) that I imported before I left, to a DVD? I was able to find an option in iPhoto under "Share" and then "Burn", which allows you to burn a copy of your iPhoto Library to CD/DVD and then re-import those photos back to your library - but I was unable to find a similar option for iMovie 08.
If I can't find a way to back all these imported camcorder videos up, my wife will kill me. 🙂
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
-RJ
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.3)
