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.
Organize Your iMovie Video Library
Jeff Carlson
September 17, 2009
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?
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.