Best Archiving Strategy?

I have many hours of video of the kids that is on mini DVD tape.
Now is the time to drag out the firewire 400 deck and move these off to a hard drive.
Any advice on the best way to handle this so the kids can make sense of it all, assuming I can keep migrating it to new storage methods!
I have iMovie, anything else?
Thanks i advance
Cas

Do you have the firewire 400 cable too?! I think that's all you need. What you will want to do is just save it into Events folders that are stored on the new External HD. Make sure you have formatted it as Mac OS Extended using Disk Utility (it's inside the Utilities folder inside of the Applications Folder). As a Mac formatted disk you will have full access to the video clips from programs like iMovie.

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