How do I use a different hard drive?

I just installed iLife08. I have three separate hard drives on my machine. I have a 500gb raid set up that I want to store video on. iMovie wants to store all of my video on the same drive where iMovie is. How can I tell it to use the other drive?

teskicks wrote:
Now I can't figure out how to create a new project on my raid. I can import to it but how do I create a new project there?
That's a lot harder; iMovie 7 doesn't let us do that.
All projects created by John Smith automatically go in John Smith's Movies folder, and all projects created by Amy Smith go in her Movies folder. We can't put them anywhere else. And to the best of my knowledge, we can't move them. (They won't open when we double-click on them.)
If you really need to store iMovie projects on the RAID it may be necessary to install a minimal Mac OS X installation on that drive, install iLife '08, and boot from that drive when using iMovie. (There may be other ways, but I haven't found them.)
Keep in mind, however, that iMovie projects are much smaller than they used to be. It may not be necessary to store them on an external drive. All the video stored in the Media folder of our old projects is now stored in the Event Library, which can reside on any drive.
To keep iMovie 7 projects small do NOT export them to the Media Browser, which causes iMovie to export to movie(s) stored inside the project itself. (iDVD and other Media Browser-savvy apps know to look inside projects for movies.)
This can be avoided by 1) choosing Share > Export Movie and exporting to the Movies folder instead of the Media Browser — iDVD knows to look in the Movies folder too — or 2) choosing Share > Remove from Media Browser, which removes old browser movies from the project when the movies are no longer needed.
Although I didn't like that iMovie doesn't let us store projects elsewhere, the whole package Apple has put together makes it less of a problem than I first thought.
Karl

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