Memory Question - Help!

I just started trying to import footage from a camera to my Mac. While my laptop doesn't have a ton of spare memory, I have an external hard drive that does. Question: how can I set iMovie HD 6 to use the connected external hard drive's memory rather than the memory from my laptop?
I've got about 60min of footage - but, right now, I can only import about 7min.

What you're talking about is not memory ..you're talking about hard disc space.
(Memory is the little chips inside the Mac which hold the current program which is running, etc. Hard disc storage is where you store or Save things, such as video clips and entire video projects.)
When you start a new project you'll see a window like this:
Where it shows "Where:" and the choice 'Pictures' in the little pic above, if you click on the arrowheads alongside whatever's currently showing ..e.g; 'Pictures', which is probably 'Movies' in your case.. you can then browse all the folders and hard discs on your Mac, and you can choose to store the new project on your external disc ..simple!
NOTE: Your external disc MUST be formatted as 'Mac OS Extended', and preferably be connected by a FireWire cable, not USB (..USB is too slow for sustained video transfer).
To format the external disc as 'Mac OS Extended', use the Finder to go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility, select the hard disc's name then click the 'Erase' tab and choose Mac OS Extended as the format for it. CAUTION: This will erase anything already on that external disc ..so if there's anything precious there, copy it across to your internal disc first.
After formatting as Mac OS Extended - it takes just a few seconds - you can then use that disc for your iMovie projects.

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