Loving MP4's (kinda)

I am really loving the fact that I have gotten 30GB (2.5 hours) of cutting room footage from Audrey's First Year down to 2.5 GB by converting to a pretty good MP4.

I've been looking at changing the way I handle all the media that I'm creating. I got a pro flickr account to store photos and short videos. I put all the videos from her first year onto a DVD. They barely all fit on one. It looks like the best idea is to convert all of those videos into an MP4 to backup on an external hard drive. Otherwise, they're taking up so much space.

I bought an HD camcorder and I love it. The only problem I'm having is that iMovie 6 HD is not exporting the videos in HD when it says it is. I have researched that online and I'm still not having much luck. I've walked away from it a while and I'm going to work on it again in a couple of days.

I feel like I need to have all my new procedures down and problems solved before school starts, otherwise I'll be tripping through the year. I've already been posting raw video to get it online in HD, and I hate posting raw video.