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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

The iMovie Hard Drive Diet

Good advice from Apple-x.net: "Apple's iMovie has brought desktop video creation to the masses. But is it also bringing unwanted mass to your hard drive? If you use iMovie frequently, then you might need to do some hard drive hygiene. Every time you trim or delete a clip, those edits get stored in iMovie's trash can. This feature allows you to do virtually unlimited undos, or to use the "restore clip" function. These are all great features, but what if you've finished your movie and have no more need for the various edits, tweaks, and second-guesses that accompanied your latest cinematic triumph? Here's a simple but powerful tip that will extend the life of your hard drive: delete all the unused clips in the clip window, then empty the trash in the project window. I recently went through about two dozen old movies and saved more than 10GB of otherwise dead space in my LaCie 120GB external."

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