Organize Your iMovie Video Library

Macworld has published an article of mine: Organize Your iMovie Video Library. Learn how to mark video as favorites, assign keywords, and get your video library under control.

Category: Articles and Books, Digital Video, Macintosh

Published by Jeff Carlson

Author, photographer, and late-nighter Jeff Carlson writes for outlets such as Macworld, DPReview, Creative Pro, and others, and is a contributing editor for TidBITS. He is the author of Take Control of Your Digital Photos; The Photographer's Guide to Luminar, Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course; and The iPad for Photographers, among many other titles. View all posts by Jeff Carlson

Eric Lundberg October 26, 2009 at 10:42 am

I need your expert advice. I took my Panasonic digital camcorder to Walmart’s Photo dept. and asked them to download the valuable contents to discs so it would be saved. They did save it{3 discs} but said it can’t be played on a dvd player attached to my tv. Now all I want to know is ; can those discs be ” Formated” or reburned so I can play them on my Television DVD player. If so who should I take the discs to in order to have it done safely. I am an Imac Leopard user but not very capable of downloading valuable digital video. I am reading your ” Imovie’08 & iDVD’ 08 book now that is where I got this address. Hope you can help me find a reputable recoding place to have this procedure done. Would an Apple Consultant be appropriate?

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Jeff Carlson October 26, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Hi Eric,
An Apple Consultant would be a good choice. Not knowing what format the videos are in, I would imagine these are the steps (simplified) to get them onto a DVD you can play in any DVD player. (You can do it yourself if you want.)
1. Insert the first disc and copy the contents to a folder on your hard disk. Repeat for the other discs.
2. Open iDVD and add the video files from your hard disk.
3. Burn a DVD from within iDVD.

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