Moving events to external drive

Hi there,
I have imported about 20G of video into iMovie08 that I want to move onto an external hard drive. I cannot simply grag it over. Can it be done? Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks a bunch,
Peter

But iMovie does NOT recognize them from my macbook. It appears they physically have to be connected.
I suspect too FireWire drive(s) must be physically connected to your MacBook, although I'm not certain.
I have a network similar to yours, so I'll describe what iMovie does here.
When I use the Finder to mount a Network computer on my Desktop (a PowerBook connected to the network with an Ethernet cable, not wirelessly) the Finder also lets me mount its FW drive. When I mount both, iMovie displays both the computer and its FW drive in the iMovie Events list.
The icons for the PowerBook and its FW drive display an exclamation point inside a yellow triangle, suggesting they are not available to iMovie.
I don't know whether iMovie's reluctance to use the drives is because of permission settings or because iMovie refuses to accept network devices. I haven't tried fiddling with permissions on the PowerBook/FW drive. (It's my backup server, so I don't want to adjust settings needlessly.)
If your drive supports USB, you might try connecting it directly to the wireless base station using USB. That might allow iMovie to accept the drive. Whether or not the network/USB will deliver the speed iMovie needs is a separate question, but you might at least be able to move your Events to the drive after importing video to your MacBook
Otherwise, it may be necessary to attach the FW drive directly to your MacBook.
Please let us know how it works out.
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