How can I convert an iMovie 9 project down to iMovie 8?

Student started movie project in school in iMovie 8.  Took project home to work on it, but had iMovie 9 at home.  Now, he can't read his movie project on computer at school (in iMovie 8).  Any "Save as" or down-converter? 

It is not possible to downconvert. You can forward-convert to a later version because the later version has all the old features plus some new ones. You cannot backward convert, because once you convert, the project file now has the new data structures that enable the new features. The old version does not know what to do with these.
If he was running Time Machine, he could go back to the iMovie 08 version and just lose any edits he made under iMovie 09. Otherwise, he should just finish up the project at home.

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