How do I import imovie events from another hard drive?

I have dozens of events from iMovie I need to import to Final Cut X but they all reside in the 2nd and 3rd hard drive bay in my Mac Pro. The only option I see to import is the single command that gives no options and just says import so it only looks to the imovie events on my OS hard drive (which I DIDNT want imported).
How do I import all these other iMovie events?
I am using Lion and the latest version of iMovie and Final Cut.

Use iMovie to move the events to your Movies folder, otherwise you're can't.

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