Events only to external drive best option?

Hi, I have read the following below on how to move events to an external drive.
karsten.schluter - iM08 tricks
I want to make room on my macbook internal drive and just wanted to make sure it was safe to just relocate my events only to my external drive and keep my projects on the internal drive.
Thanks,

once i started iMovie I just told all of my videos to be loaded on the External Hard-drive. So it automatically copies everything to my Ex. HD.

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