Loss the link with iphoto after library move

I am using Imovie with events stored in Iphoto
I have moved ma Iphoto library from a disk to an other one
In Imovie, I can see the movie stored in Iphoto,
but if i select an existing projet, it can't find the event in iphoto

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Marc.
When you use video from iPhoto in an iMovie project, a link is created from iMovie back to the iPhoto Library. Moving the iPhoto Library to a different directory breaks the link between iMovie and iPhoto. Once that link is broken it cannot be repaired.
Are you running Time Machine to make backups?
If you restore your iPhoto Library and iMovie Projects folder from before you moved the iPhoto Library, that will restore your Projects to a working state.
For the future you might want to drag your movies out of iPhoto and then import them to iMovie using the File > Import > Movies command in iMovie. That will add the movie clips to iMovie as a new event rather than storing them in iPhoto.
Hope that helps.

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