After about one year and too many hours to want to know about, I finally have my 48 minute highlight video done of my son's 6th grade basketball team.

Your answers to my various questions through out the year were INVALUABLE to completing this project. Thank you very much for all your assistance to me and the many others you help.

Now, another question. What do I need to back-up to save these files?

As you suggested, I took about 15 - 40 minute ball games and loaded them into my computer. From those, I took several 4-10 second clips out of each game and rendered them into .avi files.
Then I picked out good, bad, and funny things out of each .avi and put them in the video along with text and music.

What I have now is 15 or so complete 40 minuted games, 15 or so 3 - 8 minuted rendered .avi files with the important parts of those games, all my mp3, Sony text, .jpg's, and vf files. Lots of it is in various folders.

I would like to be able to possibly edit it in the future so what do I do to save everything I need in a safe orderly manner.

Thanks again for your help.