[HunkFam]

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to this Mac thing, and I need a bit of help.

I've imported my video to iMovie3 and it is now sitting down in the timeline, broken up by clips. However, my Movie folder in my Home is still empty, which tells me that the "movie" or "series of clips" is not yet stored on my hard drive anywhere (Even though my hard drive space has reduced by 10 gig???!!!). Is this true? If so, how DO I save it so I can work on it later? Why is 10 gig gone from my drive?

Could someone please explain to me how this works?

I go to the File drop down and I only have 2 options: Save Project (when I click on this nothing seemingly happens) and Save Frame As. I don't find a "Save current movie as"??? I'm confused.

Similarly, when I export to iDVD, how and where is that saved? It seems to use a complete other method, but in my way of thinking, they are both movies. Egads, someone help me.

I've tried iMovie Help and searched this site and the MAC site, to no avail. I have a feeling I'm missing something VERY easy...it's just not intuitive to me.

thank you,

Thad

[Ratm]

Bump

(Can't help but I'll do the next best thing and drag this thread back up.)

Someone help a fellow Mac user out.

[Uncle Skeleton]

you know how iMovie bugs you to create a new project when you open it? that's where the scratch files are. If you quit iMovie, it will usually open the same project by default the next time it's launched (unless you delete the project with the finder).

to get the final movie, you choose Export. I don't know how the iDVD export works

you could have found the scratch files by hitting command (apple) f in the Finder (f for Find) and search for files created in the last hour, or files over 500 MB, etc. very handy

[HunkFam]

Hello,

Okay, A bud at work helped me--When you FIRST open iMovie, it will ask you if you want to create a new project. Here is where you specify where it will be saved.

The name you give it will be a folder in the directory you choose...in this folder will be 3 things: a Quick time file, the actual project, and another subfolder called "Media" with all the individual clips. Subsequent clicks on the "Save Project" on the file menu will save to this location. If you want to move it later to, say, another hard drive, you just use the Finder as normal to copy and paste.

There is no "Save as" command, presumably because most folks only have disk space for one copy of these MASSIVE files. So the first time you save your imported file to a specified location in iMovie is the last time you can change the location in iMovie--you have to go out to Finder and move it. If you can't remember where it is, just Apple-F and search for "Clip1" .

iDVD works similarly in that it saves a DVD project where you specify--this is completely separate from iMovie.

later,

Thad

[proton]

You can create a new project whenever you like. Although I don't have a copy of iMovie handy to check the exact menu item name right now, just go to the file menu in iMovie and choose the "New" option.

The folder that iMovie creates for each project is just the same as a file created in any other Mac program, you can move it around etc (but probably easiest not to when it's so big!). The only real difference is when you open iMovie it automatically opens the last opened project, but you can easily open any other project with "Open" from the File menu.

- proton