If your hard drive has a yellow exclamation point, it is formatted for Windows and you'll need to reformat it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).An icon for the hard disk appears in the Event Library. Connect an external hard drive to your Mac.To copy or move an iMovie project to a hard drive:

Moving or copying projects to another HD is useful if you want to work on a project using another computer that has iMovie installed, or if you want to free up space on your computer's hard disk. Copy or Move a Project to an External Hard Disk in iMovie' 11, iMovie' 10, iMovie' 09 In this article you'll learn how to copy iMovie projects from Mac to another Mac, or from Mac to an external drive so you can still work on the project. You may want to transfer the project file to external drive or to another computer but do not want to lose the editing jobs. Perhaps I'm missing something simple as I haven't used imovie much”Įditing movies with Apple's iMovie is fabulous, except that the projects and events fill up your disk. I have tried the obvious and can get it to my desktop but the project is always greyed out when I try to import it.

If any of the video, music, and other media in a project is stored on a hard disk other than the one on which the project itself is stored, you can consolidate all the media used in the project onto the same disk as the project.I was working on a project on my Air when on vacation and now can't move it back to my MacPro at home. Save your iMovie project folder to the network Consolidate a project’s media Any files that are used in your project will need to be saved to this file. When working on a project save all the original still images and audio files into a project folder labeled with your name to the desktop.

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