How do I move an iMovie project from my iMac to my laptop

I want to develop a movie project on two computers. One is permanently at work and my laptop is for weekends at home. Can't figure out how to keep it editable after moving to laptop. This is not just moving video to a different hard drive. I use lots of stills with transitions. Also music and video clips are involved. I just need to move the project back and forth as it's developed.

There are several things to consider here:
1) iMovie expects the Project file to live on the boot drive.
2) The project file points to the iPhoto library, and the iTunes Library, which are usually also on the boot drive.
3) The Event files can live on an external drive that is formatted HFS+ (journalled), but they must be moved there from within iMovie by using SHOW/EVENTS BY VOLUME and dragging and dropping in the Events Source List.
So I would recommend the following:
1) Do this one project at a time.
2) Move the EVENT to the external drive using iMovie, as described above.
3) Create a folder on the external drive called something like Project Assets
4) Go into iPhoto and export any photo you are using to the Project Assets folder on the external drive.
5) Go into iTunes and export any music file you are using to the Project Assets folder on the external drive. Ditto for any Garageband tracks, etc.
6. Now go into your project. Remove the photos that are there. Replace them by opening the finder to the external Project Assets folder and drag them in from there. Do the same for the music.
7) Now Create a folder on your external drive labeled iMovie Projects. With iMovie closed, use the Finder to move the folder containing the RCPROJECT file to the external drive in the iMovie Projects folder. Normally this folder is in the <user name>/Movies/iMovie Projects/ folder, unless you have added additional folders within iMovie.
8) Now, eject the external drive and disconnect it from your computer.
9) Connect the external drive to your other computer.
10) Move the RCPROJECT file to the boot drive of the 2nd computer in the <user name>/Movies/iMovie Projects/ folder
11) Now, start up iMovie on the 2nd computer, and everything should work. That is, if I haven't left anything out.

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