Back-up projects

How do I back-up my current imovie projects? I would like to be able to take the projects off of my external hard-drive (runnng out of room) and put them on DVDs so that I can use the video clips again in the future.
Thanks for any help!
Kathie

Welcome to the forum.
There is no one "best" solution to the back-up issue. For easy access later, many of us back up our iMovie projects to a second external drive. Another way is to export the project back to a tape in the camera.
Those and other alternatives are discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4337564&#4337564
Karl

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