IMovie events NOT copied but aliases?

I have 4 years of digital events stored on a Drobo. Impossible to import on my iMac hard disk since the disk space is not enough.
I would like to access these in the browser. The 'import Imovie Events' seems to physically copy all the files and not create references or aliasses like the 'old' Final Cut Pro' does.
Does anybody know if it is possible to prevent the copy effect and thus creating doubles of all files?

OK thanks
I wonder if you could clear up a thing for me
If I have a project in iMovie that have clips in it from several events and I want to work with that project in FCP X without copy the files just point to them, could I do like this.
I create the events in FCP x with the same name as iMovie and import all the clips from inside the iMovie events and not the event itself, so that it just points to the clips in the iMovie events and then import the project to FCP X..
Could that work ?
The reason I ask is that I have a couple of projects in iMovie that have clips in them from many events and I would like to work with them in FCP X without copy everything.
Cheers
Hans

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