Exporting imovie project files from an imac to a macbook pro

I have imovie files on my imac and want to move a project files to my macbook pro and edit while traveling. How do I simply send or share files between the two computers with imovie?

The key is to make sure the laptop is connected with a firewire cable to the other computer. It will appear on the desktop of the iMac as if it were an external harddrive. If you can see the Macbook Pro's hard drive on the desktop, you will be able to also see it within iMovie. If you don't see the Macbook Pro's hard drive in iMovie double check to make sure you have turned on 'Group Events by Disk' button in the Event browser. That's the little square button with a cartoon hard drive icon in it that sits in the upper right hand corner of the Event Library.
Once you are able to see the Macbook pro hard drive in the Event Library, drag the events onto that Hard drive icon. Same will be true for the Project Library, drag the projects onto the Macbook Pro hard drive there too.
When everything is copied, shutdown both the iMac and the laptop (you may need to hold down the power key on the laptop until it shuts off). Disconnect both macs, and startup the laptop, open iMovie. It should spend a little time 'discovering' all the new projects that have been copied to it and the Events and Project Libraries will show all the new video clips you copied.

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The best way would be to move it using an external hard drive. Then you have to move the hard drive between the two computers. In fact you could all the Events folders and the Project on that same hard drive too. And everything would be self contained. You would use iMovie to copy the Projects and Events onto the external hard drive (don't drag anything outside of iMovie, moving the files manually is NOT good). Then as a last step run the Consolidate Project command on that copy of the project on the External HD. That would get everything you needed into one spot.
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