IMovie Projects Media Folder at Root Level Only?

Is it possible to put the iMovie Projects folder (containing the media) inside of another folder? I have no problem saving it to a different drive, or partition from within iMovie, but if I try to put it into a folder that I keep all of my media, it losses connection to it. I assume there must be a way to do it, because it's possible for it to be contained inside of the User/Movies Folder.

You can use a symlink to point to a project folder anywhere.

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IMovie wants to save iMovie Events at root level of local harddisk

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I created a large project some time ago, and only about 50% of the files from the projects media folder will open. They show up in he media folder as the little black Unix executable file icons rather that the regular white clip icon.
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I've just noticed that iTunes is placing media files differently in my media folder (on a NAS drive) than it used to. It's hard to say when it started, but things I imported before the holidays seem to be ok.
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Second, movie files used to be put each in a subfolder under Movies whose folder name was the movie title (e.g. Movies > 300 > 300.m4v), but now, imported files are put directly in the Movie folder (e.g., Movies > 300.m4v).
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Ok, thanks. I did a search on media folder and subfolder, file location, and the like, and didn't see any relevant results. Thanks for the update.
Here are a couple of folks with the same issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24505055#24505055
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OK Let's take a step back.
If you imported video clips from a camcorder there would be an Events folder in the Movies/iMovie Events/ folder.
You have the option as you import from a camcorder to send your Event to an external drive instead. In this case, it would be in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of the external drive.
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I shared my imovie in media browser and the project disappeared from my computer...any ideas of where it might be? I've searched everything.

I created a 30 min video in imovie and then clicked share in media browser....
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In iMovie, try removing your movie from Media Browser and reprocessing it. You might send it to iTunes and see if it shows correctly there.
I will keep at this as there appears to be a bug with the processing of large movies and IDVD recognizing them as previously. It is just not finding shared movies.
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