Moving a project between a Mac Pro and an iMac

Question

I have a 3-year-old Mac Pro at home and a similarly aged iMac at the office. I'm working on a project with ~25GB of files on the MP with my a system/application drive, the project files on the second drive and the scratch files set up on the third disk.
I'd like to do some work on it at the office (iMac), but I don't know how to do it. Can I simply copy the project files and the .fcp file to a hard drive and copy that to my iMac? How will FCP know where things are? Also, if I can do it successfully, how do I take the edits done on the iMac and bring them back to my MP to use them too?
Thanks for any guidance.

Answer 1

Jim, I didn't think of that as a rant. In fact, I could relate to it on a musical level. In a former career as a composer/arranger/orchestrator I took a lot of gigs to support myself. Often I copied, transcribed, edited, and proofread music. This is all painstaking and industry specific work. For example, if you're working on a show and a singer complains to the music director that the key of A-flat is too high for her, it's decided to lower the song to the key of F. No one thinks about it, but now you might have oboe, clarinet, trombone, or violin parts that can not be played on the instruments because they're out of the range of the instrument.
So it's up to the copyist, editor, or proofreader to say, "Wait a minute, that really cool effect with the violas holding that open low C is now impossible to play."
With today's technology, however, it's possible for people to compose songs and scores with no knowledge of the intricacies of music whatsoever. I'm not making any value judgments, just agreeing with you that education organization, understanding, and planning are key to doing the best work you can.
I wish I could work as an assistant, but I'm getting into video as an avocation. I don't have a goal of making money, but I would like to make narrative films.
It's been a learning process since purchasing a video camera last year. I've been reading as much as I can about preproduction, scripting, casting, lighting, color, production design, cinematography, audio, writing, and postproduction: basically, movie making in general. And, even with a lot of time and experimentation, I don't even feel I've made a dent in the wealth of knowledge I need to absorb to do my ideas justice, but each day brings new information and new opportunities to learn.
This, for sure, is a rant so I'll end it with my appreciation to you, to Michael, and all the others in this and other similar communities who are willing to share their knowledge and time with neophytes. Though technology has created a new era where anyone -- with or without a lot of knowledge, for better or for worse -- can write a piece of music, publish a book, or create a film, it's also provided us with valuable communities that would have been inconceivable thirty or forty years ago.