Should I compress my movie files?
Thanks to all the wonderful help I received from this community, I have figured out how to put home made DVDs into iMovie, so that I can edit them. Now I have another problem: all these videos have nearly consumed all the space on my hard drive! I was able to burn a DVD of one project in iMovie, but when I tried to do the second one, was told that there wasn't enough memory.
I have put all the movie files that I exported using Quicktime to the desktop. Then I imported those files to iMovie.
So, one question is whether or not I still need those movies on the desktop or can they be deleted?
The other question is: I have a lot of movies that I have made of my students' performances. Some are in Disk Utility, some are in iMovie. Should I "store" these on an external hard drive or should I compress these files? I am hesitant to get rid of them, because I never know when I may need to make a composite DVD to submit for a grant proposal (when you're an elementary music teacher, you don't have much of a budget, so I am constantly writing grants to get what I need for my students).
I apologize in advance for not being very techno savvy, and I do appreciate all the wonderful folks who walked me through the importing process for homemade DVDs over the last two days.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), also have iMovie and iDVD