Hello Everyone,

How do I copy my iMovie project folders (which would include the media folder, and the launch icon for the individual project.) to CD. My projects so far are only composed of still images, music, transitions, etc...*no video* and each project usually tops out around 400-500MB.

I would like to be able to store these projects to CD Recordable media. When I copy the project folder to CD, everything gets copied. The problem is that I cannot open the copied project from the CD *and* once I copy it back from the CD to the desktop the same error occurs: iMovie doesn't recognize any of the clips and refuses to open the project.

I would sure appreciate any help provided.


Thanks,

JD

I am guessing that your problems aren't related to iMovie, but the problems are coming from the way you are writing the the CD. I'm not sure what that would be however.

I have successfully written iMovie projects to a CD-R, and then copied the files back onto the desktop in order to continue working with the project. I've had no problems at all.

Sorry this doesn't help more.
darrin

[videoalex]

Ok, this may seem like a dumb question, but do you have a CD burner? I just wanted to make sure you're not putting CD-R media into your iMac's CD drive. since the iMac is targeted at a consumer audience, I don't know that you knew you had to have one.

Beyond that, check what format you're burning your CDs in. you may be making PC-compatible ISO 9660 discs, not the Macintosh formated ones. make sure that in toast or whatever your CD recording software, that you have chosen the "mac Files and folders"

---Alex Johnson

Thanks for your responses guys. I do have a burner and I'm using the files and folders option in Toast. Here is some more info about my setup:

Mac Info:

G3/233/Beige Desktop
160 MB RAM
4 GB Hard Drive
OS v9.0.4
iMovie v1.0.2
Quicktime v4.1.2
Firewire v2.5

Burner Info:
QPS Fire 12x10x32 CDR/RW
Toast v4.1.1

When you copy the project back from CD, are you copying it to the same location on your hard drive? It could be a problem with the path to the files.

Are you letting Toast verify your CD? Try using the manual verify to make sure the problem isn't because of file corruption on your CD.

Next thing to try would be making a disk image (use Disk Copy) and put your iMovie project on that. Check to see if you can still open it. If it does, then burn that disk image as a mac volume in toast.

[jcarr]

Originally posted by jdaggie:
I would like to be able to store these projects to CD Recordable media. When I copy the project folder to CD, everything gets copied. The problem is that I cannot open the copied project from the CD *and* once I copy it back from the CD to the desktop the same error occurs: iMovie doesn't recognize any of the clips and refuses to open the project.

iMovie will most likely not open the project file from the CD because it needs to have the file open read/write (the CD is obviously read only media). I'm not sure why the file will not open when you copy it back to your hard disk however. Perhaps the file is being corrupted when burned to the disk. Be sure to verrify the disk writes with Toast, and that the volume format is set to Mac HFS.

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Thank you for all of your responses. I finally figured out through trial and error that I can't have two copies of a iMovie project on my hard drive at once.

Now, when I complete the project, I burn a cd and then trash the original on the hard drive. When I need to work on the project again, I just copy it from the cd back to my hard drive and everything works.

Thanks again,

JD