IDVD .proj files are self-sustaining?

I couldn't easily find this in iDVD help so just thought I would post here for confirmation.
I've had several videos that I imported from VCR using a XLR8 InterView audio/video out to USB/audio in cable, along with USBVision software. Those ended up as .mov files on my hard drive.
I then used Quicktime Pro to divide up the videos into segments. Then I created new projects in iDVD with various video segments, encoded/burned discs. My .proj files are now anywhere from 2.1 GB to 4.3 GB.
My question is, can I delete all of the .mov Quicktime files if all I may ever want to do is re-open the iDVD .proj file and burn another disc? I assume it's copied/encoded everything it needs and won't seek any reference to the .mov files, but wasn't sure.
Thanks
Nick

Hello, Nick,
Welcome to the discussions.
If I understand your question, you have several iDVD projects and you would like to keep the projects in order to burn disks in the future. You want to delete the original .mov files to free up drive space, and you want to be sure it is ok to do this.
NO, NO, NO!!!! DON'T DELETE THEM YET!!! READ ON * FOR WHEN YOU CAN SAFELY DELETE THEM!!!
It does not work that way. iDVD projects are more like virtual projects that pull the various audio, video, and photo files together when encoding/burning a disk. The media do not stay in the iDVD project. If you delete those files, iDVD will not be able to locate them to burn another disk.
*The way to accomplish what you want is to go back to each iDVD project, open it, and under File, select 'Save as Disk Image' to have iDVD create a disk image of your project.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
You will need to do this for each iDVD project you wish to save. Name it the same name as your iDVD project so that you will know what it is. A disk image is a self-contained file that is an exact replica of your iDVD project. Once it has been created, you can use the disk image to burn more disks, using Disk Utility (found in your Applications folder).
The process of creating a disk image can take some time, depending on how large the project is. It looks the same as the burn process, but the end result is a disk image file, not a DVD.
*Once you have ALL your iDVD projects saved as disk images, you can safely delete ALL of the movie files, .mov, quicktime, .dv, whatever you used. You can also delete ALL of the iDVD projects themselves. If you ever want to burn another DVD, just use Disk Utility and the disk image of whatever iDVD you want.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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