How to archive to DVDs

Hi all,
I'm still in my "transition" mode between PC and Mac -- and my old photo management software and Aperture.
In my old system, I would archive photos (I shoot RAW and JPEG) to an external hard drive and separately to DVDs. I filed everything by month and year, and each month was about one DVD.
Now that I'm in Aperture and have "folders," "projects," and so on, this seems a lot less straightforward. I back up my Aperture vault to an external hard drive, but is there a simple way to archive stuff on DVDs every once in a while as well?
Thanks, all!

MarkPek wrote:
Aha, thanks. That raises another question then. Yes, what I'd like to archive on disc are the adjusted ("final") pictures. (When, 30 years from now, my daughters unearth these photos, I'd like them to be the adjusted finals.) Will exporting the smart album do that, or will it export the un-adjusted "original" masters?
If you archive the masters you'll get the images as they came out of the camera without any adjustments you may have made.
If you archive the library as was suggested you'll get the adjusted images (along with a lot of other stuff) but what this means is that for daughters to view this in 30 years they will need a working copy of Aperture of the current version you are running. Whats the chances of that?
As a final compromise you could archive the versions rather than the masters. The versions have the adjustments and as they jpg's or tiff's depending how what you decide to export there is a better chance that that will be viewable in 30 years.
To do this you would select the images you want to archive and the go to File->Export->Versions select you're parameters and export.
Of course if you really want to make sure your daughters will have access to the images in 30 years you should have them printed out wiht archival quality paper and ink. But that's another topic

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