iPhoto Backup
It's time to clean up my iPhoto library. Currently it has 538.84 GB! That would take 114 DVDs to back it up! Since each DVD takes 20 mins to burn/verify, it will take 38 hours to backup my libary!
One practical alternative is to back up the photos/video to a USB flash drive. 64GB drives sell for about $30, and I can put certain events on each drive. For example, I can put 2012 photos on a couple of USB flash drive. (I expect to see a lot of deals during Black Friday!)
Hot Tip:
In iPhoto, If your trying to delete photos/videos from a Smart Album you may find that all the menu options for deleting are grayed out. (Even moving things to the trash can is not doable.) The way around that is to select the photos and they use the following keyboard combination: Command - Option - Backspace.
This will move the files to the trash. Empty the trash in iPhoto and then Empty the trash in the Finder to permanently remove the photos.