How do I transfer iMovie 11 EVENTS to an external hard drive so that I can delete them off my macbook pro to make space

How in the world do I transfer iMovie events from my event library into my external hard drive? There is no option for that. Even when I select "copy" an event, and then go to the external drive and want to paste it, there is no paste option.
The only time I can transfer footage from the laptop to the backup drive is if I drag and drop an imovie PROJECT file, and along with it click on "copy projects and events"
But most of my events are not projects, and I just want to move my event videos off the computer.
I feel like it shouldn't be this hard and frustrating to figure out.

See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66613
Geoff.

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Hi
You can do this - by not doing it the way You describe as it will not work.
a. the external hard disk - MUST BE - Mac OS extended (hfs) formatted -
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - will work for most things - BUT NOT FOR VIDEO (iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut doesn't matter)
b. Do not alter or move any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - at all
All moving's of Events and Projects must be done within the iMovie Application - then connections will not break.
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