Make a "best of" DVD from other iDVD projects

I'm archiving old family-movie VHS tapes into iMovie, and then burning them with iDVD. No fancy menus, chapters, or effects. Once I am finished and have all the iDVD's, can I get video clips from them back into iMovie to make a single movie with the best scenes? Thanks

Hi Gary
My advice would be as follows:
During sampling (from VHS) and producing DVD disks. Collect those best
moments as full quality QuickTime clips on eg. an external (FW and Mac
OS Extended formatted) hard disk.
Then when ready assemble the most memorable moment DVD disk as a
full quality project.
To go from Your DVD disks back to be able to edit in eg. iMovie is not
stright forward and You lose quality.
- To go back You need either to:
• Copy to a new miniDV tape via a stand alone DVD-player - or
• Use programs like Roxio Toast™ or MPEG-Stream + buy the Apple MPEG2-component
Tedious and You lose quality.
First suggestion - is my main advice !
Yours Bengt W

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