Old iDVD files?

I have several files from an old backup (around 7-yrs old)
chickens.dvdproj 274.5MB
My Great DVD.dvdproj 34.8MB
crystal.dvdproj 427.1MB
I'm not likely to ever reopen them, I do not even have iDVD to check them on my new iMac, though I want to make sure I'm not deleting anything important.
1. Way back when I worked on these projects, did I copy my files into iDVD or did I move my files into iDVD? In other words, I want to make sure that my original source files would be somewhere else on my backup and not moved and embedded into these iDVD files. If they were embedded/moved into these files than I would not want to delete them.
Thanks.

The project files will contain versions of videos added to the project. However, the audio for those movies are stripped from the file leaving only the video. However the files in the project package only contain the video portion of the movie file. The audio has been stripped out and stored in an audio file that I've not been able to crack. This screenshot is from a project with 1 iDVD slideshow from stills and 3 movie files.
The movie files are circled in the iDVD menu as well in the MPEG folder of the Resources folder.
Open one of the packages and see if you can recover anything that's worthwhile. Unless you added media files to the DVD-ROM portion of the project
there won't be any usable files that can be recovered.

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