IDVD Project Archive portability

I just had occasion to update a DVD that I had originally created with iDVD 3 in 2003. I had saved the original project and all associated files on an external Firewire hard drive.
I had no problems opening the project in iDVD 4 (I did have to point iDVD to two of the movie files who's path had changed) and modifying a few files. I didn't want to reencode on my 933 mhz G4 Quicksilver that was running iDVD 4 so I saved the project to my external drive as a Project Archive (File>Archive Project) making sure to check the box that said something about including the themes. This can take a while.
I then transfer the hard drive to my new iMac Intel dual-core machine with iDVD 6. The original template I used (Parchment) was not installed on this machine. The Project Archive open just fine in iDVD 6 and everything was there. I created a disk image on the Intel machine (very much faster than my old G4) and everything works fine.
So I guess the bottom line is that an old iDVD version Project Archive will work with newer versions of iDVD which is great. However, be sure to include the themes when you create the archive.
F Shippey

That's another bookmark, Fred!
Thank you.
Sue

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