How can I import to an external HD?

Question

In previous versions of iMovie, I could easily import a video to an iMovie event of my choice located on any connected hard drive. This is important because I make a lot of movies and keeping on my internal HD is impossible.
iMovie 10.0.2 does not seem to want me to store movies anywhere but the internal HD. I have searched high and low for a solution but have not found one. This makes imovie useless for me. and makes several TB of movie files inaccessible to imovie. I made the mistake of trying to upgrade old imovie files to the iMovie 10, a process which could not be completed because it quickly wiped all my internal HD space and would not use the external drives.
Has imovie development been outsources to retired MS Windows developers? Will I soon need to click START in order to switch things off?

Answer 1

In iMovie '11, I could create an event on any hard drive when I imported the movie. It was part of that step.
Now I have to cancel import, go to the menu, select File, select open Library, select New, select the appropriate Hard Drive, select New Folder, name the folder, create a name for the Library that is descriptive yet short enough to fit in the smaller iMovie10(sic) menu, click save.  Now I can click Import. None of those steps are intuitive. It is like those casio watches we had in the 1980's that had 40 functions but only 3 buttons to navigate the menu.
But that is just the start of my problems. Now I am required to associate the project with a particular event on the same drive as the project. This makes iMovie less of a project editor and more a single-event editor. Now, in order to work effectively within a project, I have to import all of the events that I want to use with the project, and I have no thumbnails to help me do that. In iMovie '11, I had my blank independent project in one field. In the other field I had all the events from all hard drives in the another. I could easily scan the events and import the appropriate clips into the project. But now I have to import all the clips in full without being able to see the thumbs. The only way to get iMovie 10(sic) to work as well as iMovie '11 is to import every clip into the same library as the project, or import every event into the same project.
This so-called library structure is far less intuitive, and far less practical than the previous version. And I swear to you that I a really trying hard to give it a chance.