Help With Movie Management

[seancfuller]

Hi,

I wanted too find out what the best way to manage my movies on my Macbook. I have well over a 1000 movies/ videos on my laptop. (This is when I click on finder, All Movies etc) These range from full movies to small movies that are imbedded in iPhoto. I was thinking about transferring them to a hardrive as they take up 90GB of my HDD but wanted to know what the best way to manage them is?

In the long run I want to make some movies and slide shows but i feel that there are just so many to manage at the moment. It also seems like the movies get duplicated when you create a new project?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks

 

[UpQuark]

Hi,

I wanted too find out what the best way to manage my movies on my Macbook. I have well over a 1000 movies/ videos on my laptop. (This is when I click on finder, All Movies etc) These range from full movies to small movies that are imbedded in iPhoto. I was thinking about transferring them to a hardrive as they take up 90GB of my HDD but wanted to know what the best way to manage them is?

In the long run I want to make some movies and slide shows but i feel that there are just so many to manage at the moment. It also seems like the movies get duplicated when you create a new project?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks

I would start by moving them to an external drive in a folder on that drive. When you open iMovie - it will search your external drive and then, on the upper left side, show you the external drive with your 'movies' folder listed there.

When you import a movie in to iMovie, you can leave it on your external drive, you don't have to move it to the internal one. It will create a 'copy' but that copy will be in a format that iMovie can change/update etc. So, you have a choice, you can ignore the duplicate or delete the work files when the editing is completed, keeping the original and final movie.

Good luck!

 

[seancfuller]

I would start by moving them to an external drive in a folder on that drive. When you open iMovie - it will search your external drive and then, on the upper left side, show you the external drive with your 'movies' folder listed there.

When you import a movie in to iMovie, you can leave it on your external drive, you don't have to move it to the internal one. It will create a 'copy' but that copy will be in a format that iMovie can change/update etc. So, you have a choice, you can ignore the duplicate or delete the work files when the editing is completed, keeping the original and final movie.

Good luck!

That's great!! Thank you!!