General iMovie Questions

Preface: most of my movies are family to include 5 high school graduations set to music in iMovie and a 6th coming up in 2 years. My process is simple - transfer Canon HD20 miniDV into iMovie on my laptop. My editing skills are very basic trimming and organizing. I store the movie files on 2 external hard drives. Question: Will the oldest files on external hard drive going back to 2005 hold up going forward with newer iMovie versions? If I want those files to still be functional 30 years from now, should I be doing anything differently? Thanks!

Ahh, a good opportunity for one of my 'We're all doomed!" posts ...
a) iMovie project files probably need every 2. - 3. incarnation of iMovie an update;e.g. if I'm correct, actual iM10 doesn't handle files from iMHD5
b) iMovie exports, the 'done' consolidated files, will remain longer; mp4 exists quiet a while, and the codec inside, h264, too.
but....
speaking of h.264 - first devices, such as iPhone5, use the successor, new h.265, for all hose new, shiny 4k/UHD content...
and media ...
nobody knows, how long modern media keeps. I can read a 500y Gutenberg Bible, but ... anybody remember 5¼" floppies? Gone. Or, 3"MO media? Gone. Hardrives with a centronics/SCSII connector? Gone. Speaking of using hard-drives… The urban legend tells, the motors inside 'stick' when not moved at last every half a year... My first homebrewn DVDs were killed by 15min of sunshine on it …
I'm pretty sure, a book from the Middle Ages holds much longer than any of my digital photos/videos from my kids...... I should be happy, they are accesible in 10y!
iMovie Project, functional in 30y? A clear "No way!"
iMovie Exports? Perhaps, but you have to 'care' for the storage, and update files&devices frequently.....
In a hundred years the will call our present the 'Digital Dark Age', zillions of data poof! gone ...
Sounds pessimistic… sorry for that.

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baldrambutan
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Also, I read somewhere that tiff for macs are different from tiff in windows. Is this true?
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Yes and I said that
Roxio Toast - INCLUDING BD-Component can burn to both DVD and if You got a BD-Burner to Blu-Ray disks.
BUT
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AND - My BD-DVDs play back greatly on my PlayStation3 - BUT NOT ON some Cheap Samsung BD-players !
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http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphone/#iphone
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No.
I see you can make grey background app folders, and you can fit a max of 16 apps/folders per page and 4 more at the bottom. Is that the default?
http://support.apple.com/manuals/iphone/#iphone
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Not that I am aware, Yu can check the manual. There may be 3rd party apps that allow password protection.
Is there a way to make Google as a homepage that opens by default when I open my Safari browser?
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Page 184 of the manual:
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf
one mutes it and turn vibrate off, right? How do you set your phone to vibrate only when you receive a call or text?
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf
Is there a way to do a complete phone backup so I wouldn't lose any data if I lost my phone and then purchased a new one?
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_iOS4_UserGuide.pdf
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to I transfer the iTunes music I've purchased on my iPhone into the music library on iTunes on my computer?
File>Transfer Purchases
Thanks in advance!
A look at the manual should answer most questions.

Best Hard Disk Handycam for iMovie Question

Not sure if this is the best place to post this question but I thought I would start here. I realize the answer is could be quite varied.
Which of the newer Handycams with a hard disk seem to provide the best quality and ability to work with iMovie08?

Hi Stormin' Norman,
Yes, myriad answers possible I guess - all correct. For my part, I've been extremely happy with my Sony SR7 - 60GB HDD camera.
It's a great camera to use, though, depending upon what you are videoing, you may wish to add the other microphones etc as accessories. I've had some great results in varying situations, and, now that iMovie '08 and FC Express 4 work with HDD cameras, that issue has gone away.
Whether it's the best for working with iMovie, I wouldn't know - but I'm very happy with the camera.
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