Yipee, Project completed Now need to remove all project off my Mac and save

Question

I have completed a 1:17:00 minute project. I now want to remover everything off my Mac and save the project either on Disc or Lacie or ?. Is there a way to save everything, capture scratch, footage, etc to disc or a hard drive? I also need to know what I should be saving to ensure everything is there in storage. I would like to free the spaced used for this project. I do not want anything part of this project remaining on my Mac. I would like to burn this project to disc and if I need to ever need to open it again I have all the information there, without have to go back into my original tapes.
Thank you!
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Answer 1

I too just finished a big project (three performances of "The Nutcracker" with shot with two cameras, for a total of about 12 hours' worth of capture files, edited down to one final 2-hour presentation) so this thread is a good find for me! It's worth it just to know I don't have to save the contents of the Render Files and Audio Render Files folders, but I've still got something like 200 gb of data.
If you're looking for an alternate suggestion of how to save all the stuff, here's something I found: I went to Best Buy and bought a PC gamer accessory called a Black Widow, from a company called Thermaltake. It costs about $60 and connects via a USB port, and yes, it's Mac-compatible.
It has a slot in the top that accepts a bare SATA hard drive mechanism -- either a standard-size 3.5" or laptop-size 2.5." You just plug the drive mechanism into the slot and it appears on your Mac desktop, where it can be formatted, copied, etc., like any other drive. I already had several SATA drive mechanisms around from upgrading the internal drives on various Macs, so I figure all I need to do is copy all my project files onto one, put it back into its anti-static bag, and store it somewhere safe.