iMovie project from 10 years ago compatible?
Ten years ago or more, I made a bunch of iMovies and burned them to DVD. Thinking I might want to make more copies later, I archived the iMovie projects.
Flash forward: here I am years later, and I do want to open some of these project and burn them to DVD.
BUT my iMac is now running 10.9.2, and iLife does NOT have iDVD!
I'm afriad to even try to open the projects, because now iMovie wants to 'update' the files, and as I understand it they are not backward compatible.
I guess my questions are these:
What would the new iMovie do with/to the 'old' iMovie files? Would they open? Would they look the same? There were a lot of special effects, layering of sound, etc. Would all that work? Are all the movie clips, stills, and music/sound bits, contained in the archived project?
I'd really appreciate any help understanding what I'm in for.
Thanks in advance.
Hal
iMac (24-inch Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)