[Macpartners] iMovie and iPhoto files

[bronwenh@MIT.EDU]

Hi Ginny, 

On of the attendees of my OS X coures had two questions that I did not have an
answer for.  First:  He offloads his digital photographs to his Mac OS X
machine.  iPhoto automatically launches, storing his photographs in folders that
are several layers deep (with extra data files, thumbnail files, etc).  He would
like to be able to archive his images to a cd as single, separate entities,
probably as jpg files.  What if iPhoto disappears or is replaced by something
else? How can he archive them so that they will be re-usable?  Is there an easy
way to do this?  

Second:  He is a surgeon who films surgeries, resulting in very large files that
he edits and  views with iMovie.  However, these too he would like to archive. 
Should he save his original film clips?  Writing the movies to DVD is one option
for storage except that once it written to DVD you can't copy portions of the
movies back to disk for editing or other purposes. 

Any suggestions or help you can give me would be appreciated.  

Thanks, 

bronwen