If you try, iMovie will offer to convert it to iMovie HD format again, you’ll spin out a second backup copy, and you’ll wonder why the editing you did in iMovie HD yesterday isn’t showing up. That’s a backup copy of your original, which iMovie HD thoughtfully deposits there just in case.īe careful, in the future, not to open the Vacation.iMovie2Project document by mistake. Your converted project folder also contains a copy of the old, untouched original, now called Vacation.iMovie2Project. That’s your new iMovie HD project file, the one you should double-click the next time you want to open it (identified in Figure 4-14 at bottom). When the conversion is finished, you still have a document inside called Cruise. You get the message shown in Figure 4-15. (See Figure 4-14 for an illustration.)įor example, suppose you try to open an iMovie 4 project called Cruise. Instead, iMovie leaves you with the original project folder, with a few new files and folders deposited there for safety. Now, even if you click OK, your old iMovie project folder doesn’t get turned into the new-style, single-icon project file as described earlier. iMovie2Project” (see Figure 4-14, bottom). Doing so creates a new project file, and preserves a copy of the original with the filename suffix " If you want to edit the project in iMovie 6, you have no choice you must click OK. When you open a pre-HD project, iMovie asks permission to update its file format into the iMovie HD format, as If it’s an iMovie 1, 2, 3, or 4 project that you’ve opened into iMovie 6, it remains just as it was: as a folder full of associated files ( Figure 4-14, bottom). Having a single-iconĭocument makes it very convenient to open, copy, delete, rename, or move a video project, because you have only one icon to worry about. O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.If the movie began life in iMovie 5 (“iMovie HD”) or iMovie 6, it’s represented on your hard drive by a single file icon (see Figure 4-14, top). Get iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual now with the O’Reilly learning platform. You also couldn’t back up your project file, content. And that meant that you couldn’t design a DVD on one Mac (one that lacked a DVD burner), and then burn it on another. IDVD, you couldn’t transfer a project from one Mac to another for this very reason. It walks you through the process of adding a Mute button to the main iDVD screen, so you can shut up the music momentarily without stopping the animation. You can find step-by-step instructions for a sample Franken iDVD project on this book’s “Missing CD” page at. As long as you’ve got your original iLife DVD on hand, so that you can install a fresh, unmodified copy of iDVD if necessary, you can do whatever you want to a copy and still sleep peacefully at night. This is a rush, an illicit-feeling power trip, but it doesn’t actually hurt anything. The program itself-to change its look, reassign its keystrokes, and so on. Because Mac OS X programs are often built as packages in this way, they give you a great opportunity to hack As you’ve probably discovered, the iDVD program icon isn’t really an application icon at all-it’s a Mac OS X
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