IMovie '08 importing a project

I'm new to iMovie. I created a project, loaded the video, added music, and cut a piece to the music. I then wanted to bring it to a class so I saved the folder and file structure that were saved in my movies/imovie events & imovie projects folders to a DVD. I thought I could just import the assets and the project into the computer at school from the DVD but I couldn't. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike

MDC Media wrote:
.. I thought I could just import the assets and the project into the computer at school from the DVD but I couldn't. Any ideas?
iM08 isn't meant to be 'multi user'.. you try to 'share' the whole structure of a project onto 2/many Macs.
that is a tricky process, because iM08 has a very elaborated (or, perhaps: little elaborated :)) ) file management. even copying 'all' files involved onto some disk will 'distroy' the internal links and pointers..
what you can give a try:
on my site, I give advice, how to de-locate Events AND Projects onto some ext. HDD (I would avoid DVDs.. you run into 'permissions' trouble) .. maybe that does work, if you try to open the Project on a 2nd Mac.
*Project Library (and Events) on External Harddrive*
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks

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