Problem Sharing Footage

Question

HELP
I have two and one half hours of video footage. I want to share it to media browser to do post editing themes in iDVD. However, I get error messages either stating that the file is too long or no more space on my hard drive. I was able to resolve the space issue by deleting some old footage.
Is there a way that I can move the footage to an external drive? I also have a macbook (NOT Pro)...could I possibly access it from the macbook? I can't even post the footage to mobileme.
I've got Snow Leopard 10.6.7 with iLife '09.
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Answer 1

Is there a way that I can move the footage to an external drive?
The following is a copy of the procedure described in iMovie '11 Help (also applies to iMovie '09):
*Copy or move video from your Event Library to an external hard disk*
To save space on your computer’s hard disk, you can move video in your Event Library to an external hard disk connected to your computer. You can also copy Events to an external hard disk. You might do this, for example, to create a duplicate copy of your entire video library or to copy an Event to a friend’s hard disk.
Note: To use an external hard disk with iMovie, it must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). iMovie doesn’t support network-attached storage or external flash memory drives.
+To copy or move Events to another hard disk:+
Connect a compatible external hard disk drive to your computer. In iMovie, click the Hard Disk button to see all available hard disks, which are listed in your Event Library. The button is located in the upper-right corner of the Event Library.
Select the Events you want to move or copy. To select more than one Event at a time, press Command as you click Event names.
+Do one of the following:+
To copy the Events, drag them to the icon of the hard disk, in the Event Library, you want to copy them to.
To move the Events, hold down the Command key as you drag the Events to the icon of the hard disk you want to move them to.
The Events are moved, and they’re deleted from the original location. Any projects using clips from the moved Events refer to the clips at their new location. This means that the hard disk to which you have moved the Events must be connected to the computer where the projects are in order for you to play or further edit the projects in iMovie.
If you’re moving a large amount of video at once, this process may take several minutes.
I have two and one half hours of video footage. I want to share it to media browser to do post editing themes in iDVD.
The limit for iDVD is 2 hours, including themes and menus (unless you are using dual layer DVDs). So it is highly unlikely that iDVD will be able to process 2 and a half hours on a standard DVD. I appreciate that you have stated in your second post that the Share to iDVD is working. iMovie will certainly generate a movie for you that will import into iDVD. However, iDVD will report an error only after attempting to do the processing - this could be after several hours of processing.
If you have an external hard drive, try moving the Event to this drive, as explained above. You will also need to split the Project into two segments and create 2 DVDs (unless you are using dual layer DVDs). Duplicate the Project, then delete the second part from the original and the first part from the duplicate. To duplicate a Project, while in Project Library view (where all your Projects are listed), right-click (or Control-click) on the Project name and select Duplicate Project. Alternatively, in iMovie's menu select File>Duplicate Project.
John
Message was edited by: John Cogdell