Connecting to another Mac via ethernet

I have been doing some importing and editing on a 13" Macbook Pro and want to transfer some Events and Projects to my MacPro via a direct ethernet connection between the 2 machines.
I can see each of the connected computers in each of their Finder windows and the various HD's. However the HD's from the connected computer does not show up in FCPx as a connected drive. Is it possible to achieve this. Following is the view from the Finder window on the Macbook. I want to copy/move files to the Video Media HD.
Cheers

FCP X does not support shared drives in that way. Just copy the folders for each Event and each Project you want using the Finder and you will be fine.
There is one important thing to note, though: if when you imported the media to your events you did not check the "Copy files to the Event folder" box, your event will contain "aliases" (technically, symlinks) to the original media, not the files themselves. In this case, you may want to first "Organize Event Files" for those events in FCP X first - so that you actually copy the media to the other machine.
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