Change Scratch Disk in Current iMovie?

It used to be easier...anyone that can pass along the way I can use an external disk to be my scratch and project storage disk for iMovie projects?
Thanks!!

Hi Gully,
You can use an external hard drive to store your video footage for use in iMovie using the steps found in this article -
iMovie '11: Copy or move video from your Event Library to an external hard disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2302
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

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The reason why you are getting this prompt is just beacause the files that are saved on your scratch disk while working on MAC have location "/Volume/name of the HD/program or file name", but when you connect that drive to windows the location changes to "Drive Name:\" . So. it is the adressing issue of the drive that you are facing with the drives. It is alo not always necessary that the drives get same name when they are attached to the machine.
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