IMovie 9- 10 across computers

Hi all,
I have bumped into a big problem concerning iMovie. On my older MPB I'm running Snow Leopard and iMovie 9. I have a newer Mac Mini on which I'm running Mavericks and iMovie 10. I want to migrate all of my iMovie projects (and events) from my MBP onto my Mac Mini without first having to install Mavericks and iMovie 10 on the MBP. I've tried several things but nothing seem to work, e.g. moving projects+events onto an external drive and trying to import them into iMovie 10.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Hey there AndrewHat,
It sounds like you may need to follow the instructions in this article in order to use those projects in the new version of iMovie:
iMovie (2013): Update projects and events from earlier “iMovie” versions
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14746
Manually update projects and events
If you chose not to update your existing projects and events the first time you opened iMovie, you can manually update your projects and events.
Open iMovie.
Choose File > Update Projects and Events.iMovie searches your Mac and any connected hard disks for projects and events created in earlier versions of iMovie.
In the dialog that appears, click Update.All projects and events on any hard disks attached to your computer are updated. You can still use the original copies of your projects and events in earlier versions of iMovie.
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
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