How do I create 2 totally separate iMovie Libraries (on the same drive)?

Here is my basic issue: I take video for work and home and I store them both in iMovie. I don't want them in the same iMovie Library. I want to be able to launch iMovie '11 and select which library I want to use. They are both on my external drive and I want to keep it that way. I just don't want them mixed.
Ideas?
I tried option clicking iMovie to try and select a library and that didn't work because iMovie doesn't use any kind of library file the the other iLife apps do. So I took all of my "work" events out and put them in another folder. Now all the "home" events and projects that are left are organized beautifully.
However, I don't know how to tell iMovie to open in the other folder which has the "work" events and projects.

aha I figured that would be your follow up question! I was just to lazy to write it up for you.
Since you need to ask, I would suggest you download a trial copy of DropDMG. It is really a tool for creating software installs with nice looking DMGs with backgrounds etc, but it will do the job for you.
You also need to fiddle with your terminal window.
1. Create a template folder with the name you want to appear as a hard drive
1. Fire up DropDMG, go into preferences and choose "sparsebundle" as the format
2. Back in main window, click on the new button and select the template folder
3. DropDMG will create an image
4. Locate the image and mount it (by double clicking it)
5. Open a Finder window and select your computer
6. Open a terminal window
7. In the terminal window, type "cd" and press spacebar.
8. From the Finder window, drag the MOUNTED image, from the Devices column to the left, over to the Terminal window and drop it. This will paste the full path for the image into your terminal window. So it should read something like: cd /Volumes/myfakeimage (it can handle spaces in the name)
9. Press Enter in the Terminal window to navigate to the root of your image drive
10. In the Terminal window, make sure you made it to the right place
11. In the Terminal window, type "sudo ln -s" and add a space
12. Navigate to your actual Events folder on your hard drive via Finder
13. Drag and drop your folder containing the Events folders (it should really be named "iMovie Events") to your terminal window, effectively copying the path onto the command line.
14. In your Terminal window, it should read something like: "sudo ln -s /Volumes/myhd/iMovie\ Events/"
15. In the Terminal window, add a space and type WITHIN quotes "iMovie Events". This now complete line will create a symbolic link at the place where you stand, called "iMovie Envents" pointing to the path in your system. The sudo command will ask for your password and I included it here just to avoid further problems if you had issues with permissions.
16. Hit enter and a symbolic link should be created in the root of your fake hard drive.
Now, I've written this from memory but it ..should.. be accurate
If you want to auto mount this image, you can place it in your login items (which you can do easiest from the account dialog in your system preferences).
HTH

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