IMovie won't save project

I recently added a 500G disk to my system and moved all of my movies and projects over to the new disk. Using iMovie on a rather large project has been working fine until just recently. After working on it for hours, I emptied the trash, saved the project and closed the program. I had to re-open the project a couple of minutes later for something else, and when I tried to save, I got a "you don't have rights to this disk or the disk is full" error. I closed and opened another project to modify a clip, and when I tried to share it to Quicktime, I got the same error. I saved the file to the main hard drive with no problem.
Now, there is over 400G available on this disk. I don't know why the program all of the sudden decided the disk was full or the rights where changed (which they weren't). I changed no system parameters from the time I closed the project the first time until I re-opened it a few minutes later, so I really baffled here. Anyone have any ideas or things I can try to see if I can save to this disk again?
(And yes, from any other program, I can save/copy/delete files to the disk as normal).

Your external disk probably is formatted for Windows. To work with iMovie it must be formatted Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended (journaled). Otherwise it won't work with iMovie, even though it may work with other Apple programs.
Windows formatted disks have a 4GB limitation on the size that you can save, and that may be why your disk is showing full.
Check your external disk to see if it is formatted for windows. If it is, you can reformat to Apple by using the Disk Utility app on your Mac, but you must first remove all of the data from your disk to another disk because reformatting will erase all of the data on the disk.

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