Copy iMovie Project from MBP to iMac via DropBox?

My AVCHD Camcorder records to SDHC card and has my latest holiday on it (1.6GB of it).
My iMac doesn't have an SD slot so I ordered a USB Multi-cardreader and had to wait for it to be delivered before I could import my project into iMovie '11.
Meanwhile, as it happened, my daughter went on holiday and lent me her MacBook Pro. It occured to me that I could use the MBP's built in SD reader and I successfully imported my holiday clips into iMovie'11 on her MacBook. I even got it to analyse for stablisation and persons.
This morning the anticipated USB SDHC (and other card) reader arrived. I tried to use it to import the clips into my own Desktop iMac. Unfortunately the device is rubbish. It has a small mini USB cable to power it. The cable fell out several times each time forcing the Mac to tell me off about not unmounting the device properly. When I eventually found a way to stop the power cable falling out, iMovie couldn't import the clips without errors. Using DIsk Utility to try and fix it failed because DU was unable to dismount the device for some reason.
Never mind, I thought, I will just copy the clips I imported yesterday to my daughters MacBook.
We both share a DropBox Folder and I think there is enough space on it to transfer 1.6GB. How do I do this? I mean, is it simply a case of copying a certain folder to DropBox then from DropBox to the relevant place on my iMac?
Also, I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere something about file sharing. I have an airport router, I wonder if it would be just as simple to transfer the appropriate folder this way instead?

If you copied the entire contents of the card with the file folders intact, you can try to import using iMovie. Best case scenario, iMovie will recognize the folder and import the AVCHD files. If not, you'll need a converter of some sort. There are many apps out there that will convert AVCHD but the reason I recommend ClipWrap is that the re-wrap simply changes the container of the movie so that the Mac can read it. The contents remain the same and you have no quality loss, whereas most other converters actually re-write the data.
Another user over at Vimeo has a free option that people say has worked for them. To quote:
"Alan Somers over at Apple Discussions has made an Automator script to convert native AVCHD files with sound to mpeg 4 (m4v) the files have AC3 audio and are about the same size as the original file. You will first need to install ClipGrab from here clipgrab.de/download_en.html (free) to your application folder then Perian codecs from here (free)perian.cachefly.net/Perian_1.2.1.dmg then Alan's Automator from here (free) place anywhere (desktop works) public.me.com/catservant it's called Rewrap2M4V.app if you would like to read the thread or thank Alan for his work see here discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2380085&start=0&tstart=0
Please note the quality is excellent but you will loose the "date" information from the original file."

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For your particular workflow to be successful, the media needs to be stored outside the Library (External Media). It is important that the media that is being shared is identical on all drives or computers. The resource below will provide additional information and best practices for working with media in the new Final Cut Pro 10.1.1 environment. See Page 4 regarding Managed vs. External Media.
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