Moving completed iMovie projects to an external harddrive

I have imported some of our home videos to iMovie and edited them to consolidate. I now have a roughly 2 hour project that I would like to move to an external harddrive to free up space. I am also deleting the "events" (the converted home movies that I loaded onto iMovie to create the project). I chose to "export movie" in Share on iMovie and am saving on the external harddrive. I noticed on several other posts here that I could just drag and drop the project, is that true? If I do that, will it only be readable on this Mac that created the project? Ideally, I would like to burn a new dvd with this edited movie. Exporting Movie is taking 4-6 hours so wanted to make sure that was the right thing to do or if there might be a faster way to do this.

If it doesn't recognize the drag, then there is something else awry. You should be able to force a move instead of a copy by holding down the cmd key. Can you just plain copy?
If the destination does not become highlighted, the OS doesn't think it can accept the item for some reason.

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    Just guessing here, but it's worth a try.
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  • Moving iMovie Projects to an external drive

    I cannot move iMovie projects to an external drive. I have followed the instructions. Help!

    If it doesn't recognize the drag, then there is something else awry. You should be able to force a move instead of a copy by holding down the cmd key. Can you just plain copy?
    If the destination does not become highlighted, the OS doesn't think it can accept the item for some reason.

  • How do I import an imovie project from an external drive to imovie?

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  • How to move an iMovie project to an external drive ?

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    To make sure that all required media is in the library contain the project you need to "Consolidate media"  see:  http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov882dee351
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  • Moving the iMovie app to an external drive

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  • If I back up iMovie projects to an external drive does it take the media with it? I want to free up space and remove pictures that were in iPhoto...that were used as media by iMovie when project was under way. In short I want archive iMovie stuff

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  • Trying to share a completed iMovie project with iDVD. iMovie keeps quitting. Why?

    I've been trying to share a completed iMovie project with iDVD. iMovie keeps quitting unexpectedly. Why does it keep crashing?

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  • How do I Retrieve imovie projects from and external drive back into my mac internal drive

    How do I Retrieve imovie projects from and external drive back into my mac internal drive?
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  • Can I open an imovie project from an external hard drive on a different computer than my own? If so how?

    Can I open an imovie project from an external hard drive on a different computer other than my own? If so how?

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  • Moving an iMovie project

    I have a 1hr movie created using iMovieHD 6.0.3 on a G4 iMac that has no superdrive, and thus, no iDVD.
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  • How do I burn a completed iMovie project to dvd

    How do i burn a dvd of my completed imovie project?

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  • Sending completed imovie project to idvd

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  • Transferring Video Projects to and External Harddrive

    Can I transfer a video project to an external harddrive and delete the original from my computer. If so, whats the best way to do it"?

    csu1970
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