Manual backup of iMovie events

So here is my problem.
I imported a lot of footage.
I cant edit it all that fast.
I already erased the original tape of my recorder.
Its there, my hard drive is running out of space.
I have a desktop PC, the one I used before getting my MacBook, so what I wanted to do is to copy some of the folders from the iMovie event folder (under ~/Movies) to it, and then delete them. This would bring me enough space until I get my external HDD.
Will this work? Will I just have to copy the folder back or will I have to re-import and loose all my tags?
Thanks for your help

Thank you for the information, but it only partially worked. I can do the first part
iTunes menu bar > File > Device > backup
But there is no option to do the second part
Summary page > select backup to this computer
When I do the first part, it starts the backup immedicately, but doesn't give me any options on changing the location from the cloud to my computer and viceversa.

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Do you backup your iMovie Events folder?

I don't because it's huge, and I figure, I could always just re-import the original AVCHD footage. For example, my Events folder is 1.1TB and it would cripple my Time Machine backup disk.
I do backup my iMovie and iDVD Projects, however.
A few questions:
- do you back yours up?
- should I?
- if/when I do need to re-import something (maybe need to re-edit a project I did last year), will my iMovie Project be able to find the newly imported events? As long, I guess, as I use the same Event name?

My Events folder spans several external drives.
For the AVCHD events, I just back up the archive file or disk image, but I do not back up the Event.
I have some DV, 8MM, and VHS events, that I would really prefer not to have to capture again, so I back these up.
See [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12472813&#12472813] for more on how I back up.
Note: I do not use Time Machine, but I think it is a great idea to use Time Machine, especially for your Project files. The reason I do not use it is it used to be very slow and crashed a lot. However, I found that this was not the fault of Time Machine at all. I had a failing internal disk drive, so Time Machine could never finish. I will add Time Machine to the mix soon.

Can I Manually Create an iMovie Event Library

When we import movies from our digital camcorder, I like the way iMovie automatically creates event libraries for the year in which the movies were filmed. However, when we bring in analog media (using a converter), it simply imports the movies into the current year; i.e. 2008. I would like to create event libraries for previous years and move the imported movies into those years. I can't find a way to create a 1994 (for example) event library, however. Any ideas?
Thanks...Jim

The trick here is to change the date of your imported analog video to the correct date. Then iMovie will categorize it properly. There are many ways to do this. My favorite is an application called "A Better Finder Attributes".
Karsten's website has a good post on the various options. Here is a link.
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08changeeventdate

All of my imovie events are stored on an external hard drive. How do I backup this external hard drive? If the external hard drive crashes, how do retrieve the imovie events?

I have all of my imovie events stored on an external hard drive in order to save space on my MacBook Pro's internal drive. I currently back up both my MacBook Pro and the external hard drive using a second external hard drive via Time Machine. I have a few questions:
1. How can I be sure that the external drive is actually being backed up.
2. How do I retrieve the imovie events if the 1st external hard drive crashes?
Thank for your help!

Let me give you some thoughts. I can tell you my plan, but ultimately you will need your own plan that makes sense for you.
I do not think that your idea of having two separate Time Machine destinations will work. You can have two external drives as Time Machine volumes, but they will both back up the same data set. You cannot dedicate one to iMovie and one to everything else. They will both have everything, so you may still have a space problem.
One way to overcome this is to back up the iMovie volume by using a tool like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. The good news is that your Event files should be pretty stable and there is no need to back them up every 15 minutes. So something like SuperDuper, which you can set to automatically backup once a day, for example, is probably fine. I am pretty sure that this would work if you kept the Projects on the same external drive. As long as Projects and Events are on the same drive, then the cloning stragy should work (but you should always test.)
Because projects change more often than events, and projects can become corrupted, I would definitely back up the Project Library to Time Machine. You can do this even though it is on an external drive. (And even though you may be periodically backing up the entire drive that contains the projects.)
Here are some thoughts on how I approach backup, copied from an earlier answer...
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Great question. I think the issue of backup is a important one, and one I always worry about since I have a lot of video footage that is irreplaceable.
For back-up, it is helpful to define the risk you are trying to protect from.
For example,
1) risk of corruption in iMovie --> I use Time Machine
2) risk of hard drive failure --> I use SuperDuper! nightly for bootable backup) and Time Machine all the time
3) Risk of theft or fire --> offsite backup
Here is what I do...
1) I back up my boot disk with SuperDuper automatically each night so I always have a bootable system.
2) I back up my original video files. For my Motion JPEG, VHS-->AIC, DV, and 8MM to DV, the EVENT is the copy I back up. (I keep the tapes, but I never want to have to import the tapes again.)
For my AVCHD high def video, I back up the camera archive of the AVCHD, but I am not currently backing up the Event files, because I would need from 4 to 8 TB to back up these events depending on whether I made one copy or two. I can always re-create the Event from the camera archive.
3) I use CrashPlan for my offsite backup. It costs less than $4 per month, and I seeded the initial backup to an external drive to minimize having to transfer video files over the Internet. I currently have over 2TB of data backed up to CrashPlan, which includes my entire boot drive, and the files described in #2.
4) All of the above is automated, so I don't have to think about it too much. If I have to manually do stuff, I tend to get behind.
You have to consider the value of total multiple redundancy vs. the likelihood that 2 or three unlikely events would all happen at once. For example, CrashPlan could lose my data. My hard disk could fail. I could lose everything in a fire. But it is unlikely that they would all happen at once, except in nuclear war, in which case, who cares?

My external hard drive holding half my iMovie events and projects has crashed: how do I restore the events from another source?

My external hard drive holding half my iMovie events and projects has become corrupted. I have now downloaded all the same files (from a backup in the cloud) to another hard drive - but iMovie is not "seeing" those events or movies in that external hard drive. Q1 Is there a way of rectifying that? (I.e. telling iMovie to point to the relevant folders or files on the new external hard drive)
Q2 I have a TimeMachine backup of the corrupted drive in another drive which i keep elsewhere. Is it worth me attempting to restore from that backup? And if so where can I restore to (as the original external drive is corrupted) and how do i go about that restore process so that the events and projects re-appear?
thanks in advance for your help. (I thought i would check re Q2 before embarking on the wrong method!)

When I right click on an image, then went to Go to Folder in Library, it pulls up the new external hard drive where I made the new link. When I try to work on the photos, the image still says file image is offline or missing. When I right click on the image to Show in Finder, it says the image could not be used because the original file could not be found. I eventually did click on their locate and found the image. When I linked those two together, a few minutes later ALL the "?" went missing and now IT WORKS!!!!
That was weird!
Hope this helps someone else in my predicament.

Is there a maximum size per iMovie event in iMovie '09?

I merged two iMovie events into one (on an external hard drive), backed it up on a second external hard drive, and found that all the clips in that event on both the original ext drive and the backup drive had lost the sound. The clips played in iMovie without sound. After exploring multiple workarounds to recover the sound, I split the problematic event into 2 events, and the sound returned for all the clips?!? These are very large high rez video clips (long interviews). Is there a maximum size for the content of an event? Or does anyone have another idea/explanation why the sound was not playing along with the clips? Thanks for any help.

I have over 4TB with no problems. Having many events is not likely to cause a problem.

I want to back up2 hard drives with imovie events and projects as well as 2 desktops. Is TC the best way to do that

I want to back up 2 hard drives with imovie events and projects as well as 2 desktops. Is TC the best way to do that? Also, I already have a wireless network. Does this create a 2nd one or is it possible to just use it for the backup function?

Time Machine can do that, if your Time Capsule is large enough (see #1 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions).
For backing-up multple HDs on a single Mac, see #32 in that same link.
If by "2 desktops" you mean 2 separate user accounts on the same Mac, see #26 there. If you mean 2 Macs, see #33.
You might also want to review the Time Machine Tutorial.

Backing up iMovie Events and Projects As Opposed to Moving Them

Hi all. I'd like to make some backups of my iMovie events and projects. I read on the Apple site that the best way to do this is through iMovie itself and not the Finder. I should drag events to an external hard drive inside the iMovie window. When I do this, does it copy the event to the drive, or does it move it to the drive. I'd rather have a copy since I'm trying to make a backup. Also, how would I do this for projects to make a backup?
2) If I already copied my Events and Projects folder to an external drive, would I be able to use these in the future? Would I just place them inside my Movies folder under user and launch iMovie. These just seems easier in the event that everything crashed. Am I missing something here? It seems like it would be easier just to copy these two folders everytime, and save them in case of a hard drive crash.
Thanks.

If you drag your Projects folder over to the external drive icon in the Project Library, a pop-up window will give you the option of just duplicating the Project or getting the Project + associated Events too. I suggest going with the copy of Projects + Events to get a real duplicate backup of your iMovie project. By default iMovie assumes you want a copy.
If you want to move a Project/Events combo, you would hold down the ⌘ Command key and drag the project to the external drive icon in the Project Library.
Any time you want a backup, just drag that project folder to the external drive icon, but just make sure you do it regularly. Otherwise you'll end up with an older incomplete previous version of the project because the backup is based on an action you have to remember to do.
If you already dragged those folders over outside of iMovie, it's unlikely iMovie will be able to see or find those files. You would have to drag them back to the iMovies folders inside your Movies folder. So there's an extra step involved. And if you do that regularly, and don't mind dragging files back into the iMovies folders, that will work too. On the Mac, there's always more than one way to do things, so do what makes sense to you.

Windows 2008 R2 Sp1 backup failing with Event Id 517 and Error Code: 2147942487

We have a windows share that we dump multiple windows backup images from our servers. We have 1 server consistently failing when performing a manual "Backup Once...." operation.
The error message in the Windows Backup gui is: "Failed The parameter is incorrect"
The event log shows an error of 517 with the message: "
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎01‎-‎12T14:25:20.681861800Z' has failed with following error code '2147942487' (One or more arguments are invalid). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the
issue is resolved.
The strange part is when we choose a different location to accept the backup we have success. The backup starts, but fails between 1-6 GB transferred.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi,
Do you mean that if you change the backup location, the backup could be started - but still fail after backing up 1 - 6 GB data?
One of the possible cause is an incorrect partition table entry and NTFS total sectors.
Please test to shrink the volume you are going to backup for several MB.
Right click volume >>Select shrink, shrink several MB (such as 3MB).
Then extend the volume back to original size. You can right click on volume and select Extend volume.
When it finished, see if issue still exists.
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When I go to save my unfinished imovie project, neither of the "imovie projects" or "imovie events" are visible where they should be. Why is this?

When I go to save my unfinished imovie project, neither of the "imovie projects" or "imovie events" are visible where they should be. Why is this?

The latest version (iMovie 10) doesn't have iMovie projects and iMovie events folders - these were for iMovie 9 and earlier. In iMovie 10 Projects are in Events and Events are in Libraries. When you quit iMovie the current status of your projects and events are automatically saved in the library so there is nothing to do. The default location for libraries is in ~ / Movies folder but you can put them anywhere, such as on an external drive . If you want to backup the library you can make a copy of it on a separate disk or memory stick using the Finder.
Geoff.

Using imovie events together on one mac

me and my husband want to use our movie library together on one computer, but we don't want to use an external disc drive (where i know its working, when we name a folder on top level 'imovie events').
but imovie is not recognizing the imovie events in the shared user folder on the local hard drive.
has anyone any idea how to manage this?
thanks

Time Machine backups up everything on the MacPro, so both user accounts are being backed up.
Each user can only access their own respective backups....unless they have the log on password for the other user and log on as the other user.
When the MBP comes back from repair, then it will resume backing up to the "other" backup drive that is normally used with the MBP.

What does "Import iMovie Events" do?

I didn't do it at first, yet all my iMovie events are showing in the Event Library, although placed in the wrong year/month.
Regardless though, I clicked on Import iMove Event Libray, but it didn't seem to do anything? It didn't copy the evnt folders from iMovie area to the Final Cut Event Library folder.
So what is it supposed to do exactly?

Are you using a camera that shoots in AVCHD? If so that is because it is compressed on the camera, when imported it is uncompressed on the computer.
That is why you make a backup of the footage from the camera, to save space.

How do I manually backup to both my pc & icloud via itunes?

When I plug my phone in and open itunes, there's a backup section with both icloud and my computer listed.
I want to be able to make a manual backup in both places (you can't be too careful! :-).
I can freely checked either my computer or icloud, and then click the sync button, but I must be missing something else.
What are the relevant Settings that must be selected on the phone?
Does the phone have to be on/active?
What do I need to do in itunes to back up first to one place and then to the other place?
I'm not getting prompted to enter my icloud login/pw--is that a clue to what's not working...

Well, t'uh! (insert apple rant here)
Maybe someone will come by later and explain that bit to us. At least for now, I can mostly do what I want, although it's rather awkward and kludgy.
Thanks for the info, both of you, I appreciate it.
(still grumbling about the apple universe under my breath ;-)

In making a "highlights" movie, using clips from different imported iMovie events, can I delete the larger iMovie event file from the Events browser and still work w the smaller clips in the Projects browser w/o having the larger files still loaded?

I have sucessfully imported 150 Sony digital 8mm movies (each one hour in length) into iMovie as 150 iMovie events. I have since successfully converted them from their original 13 Gb (.dv) file to an exported smaller 1.3 Gb (.4mv "large file") movie that I am happy with, using the iMovie projects browser. So now I have 150 " .4mv" movies on my internal HD as well as about half of my original raw data " .dv " movies on my internal hard drive.
Due to their large size (over 2 Tb), I do not have all the larger raw data (.dv) files on my 2Tb internal drive, just about half of them. What I want to do now is to create a new project in the Projects browser for each of my kids, and reload, starting with Tape #1, each of these larger files and do a highlights movie for each of my kids, wherein I pick out smaller clips from each 1 hour .dv iMovie event and paste them into the appropriate kid's Highlights project in the Projects browser.
Here's my question: If I load the first 5 large files back onto my internal HD, and paste in various shorter clips into each of my kids' Highlights project, and then if I delete those first 5 large files (they are backed up on 2 other 3Tb external HDs), can I keep doing this (reloading the next 5 large .dv files to work with), and ultimately take each of my kid's Highlights project and export as a .4mv movie EVEN THOUGH the earlier large .dv files are no longer on my internal HD, OR does my iMac need to have all these larger files loaded on my internal HD for me to eventually export each of my kid's Highlights project to a .4mv movie?
I have a 2011 era 27" iMac desktop w 2Tb HD internal and 250 Gb flash drive, and Lion OSX and iMovie 11.

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?
Does QT allow trimming multiple segments out of a movie during one edit session, or can you only do 1 at a time? By that I mean that, for example, when I use Sonys Picture Motion Browser for my .mts movies, you can only set one Start and one End point for each edit/trim you do: it does not allow you to set multiple Start Stop points like iMovie allows in its Event or Project browser. You can only do one "trim" at a time, save it and then reopen to do another trim. not very useful.

I have no problems copying iMovie Events from one Mac to another, however, how can I copy iMovie Projects from one Mac to another?

I have no problems copying iMovie Events from one Mac to another, however, how can I copy iMovie Projects from one Mac to another? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

This should give you some good insight, I'd probably store them on an External HD on the old machine and then just drag and drop to the new machine.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141

Manual backup of iMovie events

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