Move or copy imovie projects to a portable drive

I want to move iMovie Projects and/or Events from one Mac to another Mac. I was told by an Apple technician that the best way is to use thumb drives, but that they need to be formatted for Mac OS, which I have done. I can see the thumb drive showing up in the Events Library, but it has a triangular yellow "warning" icon superimposed on it. No evidence of the thumb drive in the Projects library. I cannot drag and drop either events or projects into this icon, even though the Apple tech had me do that with the portable drive he had at the store. (I did not have the thumb drives with me then.) Must be doing something wrong, but what?
Thanks!

If you right-click on your thumb drive and click Get Info, you should be able to tell how your thumb drive is formatted. You want Mac OS Extended (journaled). Fat32 will not work.

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