Imovie events vs projects vs movies

In imovie 10, they have ". In the older versions I understood events to mean raw clips that could be used to make projects (aka movies).
The new version is confusing because evebts and projects are not differentiated - there is one folder called a "library" and undet that are a bunch of folders that contain all the clips.
How can I separate all the raw clips from the movies that I made? Also, there is an option to "make new move" but not "make a new project", so obviously a movie is different than a project.
Can anyone out there help sort out this confusion?

Rather than having a separate Event Library and Project Library, the new version of iMovie combines them.
You can identify the Projects by the "clapboard" frame around them.
Each Project must be associated with a specific Event (they can still use clips from any other Event) and will be grouped with that Event in the Library. You can't separate the two.
In iMovie there are two kinds of Project you can make - Movies and Trailers. The File menu has separate commands for these two different kinds of Projects.
Matt
Looks like I was still writing when Alan posted.
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a. NEVER do this via DeskTop - Has to be done in iMovie'08 or 09
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UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - WILL NOT WORK
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