Move location of events

Hi, I've recently upgraded from a Macbook where my iMovie events were on an external drive to an iMac whereby I want them on the internal drive in the Shared area. I have copied the iMovie.localized folder from the external drive (that had issues) to the /Users/Shared/... tree but cannot find a way of showing the events up in iMovie without performing an import that will no doubt duplicate the contents but in a non-shareable personal folder. There is a large amount of data so can anyone advise how to achieve this?

If you want to maintain the ability to edit the projects, all moves must be done from within iMovie.
See iMovie Help for details, but in a nutshell, you can click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK. Then Command-Drag the Event in the Event Library List in iMovie to the small icon for the external drive in the Event Library List in iMovie.
Another way. Drag the Project to the external drive icon, again using the Project Library List in IMovie. Then with the Project selected, click FILE/CONSOLIDATE MEDIA and make the appropriate choices. This will put Project, Events referenced by the project, Photo copies, and Music copies all on the same drive so they can be used on another Mac.
USB will work, although FW800 is faster. The bus speed is typically not the bottleneck on an HD render.

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