Best way to preserve movies

My iMovie files are taking up a lot of space on my computer. But I want to continue to make copies of them in the future. Can I save them in some kind of iDVD format to preserve quality, but consolidate space? If I export them to .DV format will they lose any quality? (I know .DV still takes up a lot of room)...
Thanks!

Hi s
Can I save them in some kind of iDVD format to preserve quality, but consolidate space? <</div>
No. Not if You want to cont. editing and keep full quality.
Best way (my opinion and strategy)
1. I keep ALL my original miniDV tapes .
2. When edited a movie I Export back to Camera and new tapes (some project
needs more than one tape)
3. If very important and may be of economical value. I buy an extra hard disk
FireWire + Mac OS Extended formatted. (NOT DOS/UNIX/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange)
Copy the full project to this and disconnect it for storing on bookshelf till
it will be of further interest.
4. One might copy to a set of DVD-disks but they easily exceeds 10 or even
more and will be a fragil way of storing a multi-part files on.
5. More modern way of storing on server or .Mac accounts is out of rang
for me.
Yours Bengt W

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