Hard Lesson

My son was working on a video project (gotta love the ease of using Mac's integrated programs). 2 1/2 hours of video, stills, soundtracks, stuff, added up to about 37 Gb, sitting in an external hard disc.

Job 3/4 done, looking nice, then the hard-disc is disconnected & the iMovie project file gets corrupted. Unuseable. Pretty sad son. 

An iMovie file is actually a kind of locked folder, called a package. We opened the package & found Timeline Movie, a "thumbnail" of the movie project so far (son is a regular saver luckily). That showed us enough to rebuild the lost stuff. And son went on to create a stunning little movie, with some original soundtrack (thanks Garageband), titles, transitions, etc, from iMovie & a natty DVD menu from iDVD.

But when you're editing movies, don't do anything else! You're just asking for trouble...

Motionboxbox offers a v generous movie storage online; I wonder if we'll see online editing? Not any time soon I think.