Connect external hard disk with iMovie

I bought a new external hard disk and would like to connect that with iMovie.  The disk is formatted with Mac format.  When I start iMove, I can see the hard disk appeared in the Event Library.  However, I cannot move the file into it and there is a yellow triangle signal appeared.  Would you please kindly advise how to deal with it?  Many thanks!

Hi
The disk is formatted with Mac format.
Mac can open and use many different formatting's - but for Video only one works (as I know off)
• Video - Mac OS Extended (hfs)  (journaled or not)
Not - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for much BUT NOT FOR VIDEO.
Else - there is a size problem too
I just bought a 2Tb HD and was not able to format it unless I partitioned it into smaller volumes - I think that about 750Gb is OK so I made 4x500Gb. Then it was formatted OK.
Yours Bengt W

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