Link Event to new source file/move an Event in iMovie 11?

Hi. I would like to change the location where iMovie looks for a certain Event.
Originally, the Project was located on an external hard drive. It wouldn't open, so I copied it over to my internal hard drive on my computer. I also copied the related Event folder from the external hard drive and put it inside my iMovie Events folder on my computer.
Now the Project opens. It looks for the Event on the external hard drive, and loads it up.
For various reasons (see below), I would like to tell iMovie, "Hey, look for this Event here on my computer, instead of the external hard drive." Can this be done?
I cannot, incidentally, go into iMovie and export anything (see below), so if that is the solution, it isn't going to work for me.
I'm on iMovie '11 9.0.4.
I'm running OS X 10.6.8 / Snow Leopard
Model Name:          iMac
Model Identifier:          iMac9,1
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          8 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          IM91.008D.B08
[I have a much bigger problem that is ridiculous, but I'm desperately trying to do this just in case it might help. The bigger problem has been asked about in many places on Apple support community, on blogs, and around the Internet, but is basically a terrible bug that isn't solvable for many people, while others try all kinds of bizarre tricks to attempt to get it to work (some succeed). It involves iMovie saying it doesn't have enough memory to export/share your project, even if you have loads of RAM and available hard drive space.]

I don't know of a way to do it other than the way you are doing it with Reveal In Finder.

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Yes, Xvid is a delivery-only format for delivery-only, but you know that too.
What I would do would be to Open that original Project, and then Offline the original Video. If you named the converted files the same, except for the extension, you should be able to then Import the replacement files and manually replace those. Make sure that when you choose to Offline the Assets, that you do a Save_As, so that the original Project is NOT overwritten - keep it safe.
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DLR wrote:
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Thanks. I tested it out and you were correct. I loaded 2 .dv movies from my external HD back onto my internal HD, and got them re-imported into iMovie, took a few short clips from each of the 2 iMovie events and pasted them into a new project in the Project Browser. Then I deleted these 2 "source clips" from my internal HD, closed iMovie and then re-opened it and found that iMovie would NOT export the smaller clips for a "highlights" .4mv movie without the "source clips" being available.
I read your link on Quicktime. It talks about mostly trimming, which is what I did with each iMovie event before I took each one as a project to export as a smaller .4mv file. But if I use Quicktime (do I need QT Pro or basic), what advantage is it to me to use QT over iMovie (I must admit I am a novice at iMovie and have never used QT or QT Pro as a tool)? Will it then convert any edits I make to a .m4v movie or do I need iMovie to do that?
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Yes I moved them at the finder level, what other ways are there to do it ? That's the exact question I'm asking, is there another way I should have done it.
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