Saving an imovie project to DVD that can later be re-edited?

I have many imovie jobs saved on 4 external hard drives. Problem is I am running out of space. Is there any way to save a completed imovie project onto a DVD that can still be fully edited?
Thanks, Beth

Yes, you can always save files onto a DVD as a data disk using Disk Utility or something like Toast to burn the DVD. Of course since projects (video footage) tends to be a lot larger than a DVD blank, you might have to manually break up the project onto several DVDs, then reimport them later rebuilding that project folder again as it was.
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