Moving iMovie Events to Netgear ReadyNAS

After purchasing an Infrant (Netgear) ReadyNAS RAID controller and a couple of 1 TB drives, I was disappointed to discover that iMovie '08 would not allow me to move iMovie Events to the share that I had created on the RAID array. (iMovie marked the share with a yellow warning icon.) After reading some related online discussions at the Infrant website, I decided to try using Disk Utility to create a sparse bundle on the share. It worked: iMovie saw the sparse bundle, there was no warning icon, and iMovie has now copied all of my Events to the sparse bundle.
Details: In Disk Utility I chose to create the sparse bundle as "iMovie Events 1", with Volume Name "NAS1", Volume Size "200 GB", Volume Format "Mac OS Extended (journaled)", Encryption "none", Partitions "Single Partition - Apple Partition Map", Image Format "sparse bundle disk image".

Dragging in iMovie will copy the event to the external drive. Holding down the Command key while you drag will Move the event files to the external drive. For more, see this User Tip.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4141

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Moving Imovie events from one hard drive to another

I have a Seagate external hard drive that started to fail, and I got a warranty replacement. Following Seagates advice, I moved all the files from one drive to the other by dragging them over. Everything seems to be transferred, but all the events are in one folder now rather than seperate ones for each of my kids games, bithhdays, etc. Is there a way to get it back to seperate folders? Thanks...

Bill William wrote:
... I want to move the events to the external 2TB hard drive. Am unable to find any instructions in Help....
a simple drag'n drop thing, illustrated advice on my site:
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks
(Project Library (and Events) on External Harddrive)
aside.. 400miniDV = ~5.2 TB.. you drive is way to small.. and please report how OsX + a 20$ consumer app as handle THAT amount of data..

Help in moving iMovie Event Library to an external HD

I'm trying to move everything from my iMovie '11 library from my computer to my External HD. I have managed to move all my projects by holding down the command key and dragging them to the external HD icon but that process doesn't work on the EVENT library. How is this done?

If it's the same as iMovie09 - I did it like this:
From inside the events browser in iMovie, select the disc icon along the edge - to make sure you can see events sorted by drive. Command-click on the events you want to move (you have to click on the event name - not the group), release the command button and drag the files to the new drive - then press the command button again before releasing the mouse button.
Hope this works.

My project in imovie says source unavailable after I moved the events to the backup drive. It is connected and shows up in the events library. I can see the pictures but they won't play without the source. What do I do.

My project in imovie says source unavailable after I moved the events to the backup drive. It is connected and shows up in the events library. I can see the pictures but they won't play without the source. What do I do.

I moved it because I did not have room on my hard drive to import my latest video. I take videos my grandkids basketball games then edit them as projects. I don't have room to move the whole events library back to my hard drive. Can I move part of it at a time.
I filled up my 1 TB back up drive so got a 3TB to move my video projects to. Do I have to move both the i photo videos and the projects to the 3 TB drive together some how. When can I delete them off the hard drive .
I moved all the i photo library to the 3 TB drive and deleted them out of i photo. That is 87 GB which I don't have room for on my hard drive.
I think when I use the export movie to my hard drive it works but will I still be able to edit it later if I want. Is it best to do quick time or i tunes if I use the export feature.

I moved an event to trash in iMovie but it didn't appear in the trash area on the desktop. I know there's another trash area. Where would that be?

I moved an event to the trash using iMovie 10.0.2. It didn't appear in the trash area on the desktop. I know there's another trash area. Where would that be?

An event will only be deleted if none of its clips are in use in other projects (in other events).
See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov1d890f00b for details.
I know of only the one trash folder
Geoff.

Moving iMovie '09 events and projects onto an external hard drive

I have moved my events and projects from my laptop to my external manually by going into the library and dragging them over (not being aware that it's possible to move them within iMovie 09). They appear in the event list, on the external, and behave just like the originals on my laptop. Are they complete files, even though they weren't moved in the approved method?
I tried moving one additional file (not folder) from within iMovie, but it won't let me click and drag it to the external - it only highlights it, along with any other folder that gets in the way. Why is this happening?

The event files you moved are fine. But by moving them outside of iMovie, you'll have broken any links to them from the Project files (which are just lists of references and instructions). You can recreate the projects using the new event files if you want.
iMovie will only move to drives formatted as MacOS. Many drives come formatted as FAT32 by default (because it's a format readable on both Macs and Windows PCs. You can reformat the drive using Disk Utility (use the Mac Os Extended (Journaled) option, but that will erase any data on the drive. However, it will let you move files within iMovie, which is the safe way to do it.
One major reason why iMovie won't let you use FAT32 is that FAT32 has a file size limitation (2GB, I think) - and video files are routinely way bigger than that. And just to preempt another possible question, you can't use NTFS format because Macs can't write to NTFS drives

I moved an event in imovie to an external hard drive but I don't see it on the external hard drive now

I followed the directions on Apple's website on how to move iMovie footage from the internal hard drive to an external hard drive. I moved 3 events over and I don't see those events in the external hard drive. Can anyone help?

Hi
Then it's not my advice.
There are two very important things about this.
• NEVER - move or alter any folder named iMovie Events or iMovie Projects on DeskTop/Finder - at all !
All changes must take place inside the iMovie Application - else connections break ! and iMovie can't find them.
Move Events and Projects back and hope that they will be found.
• The external hard disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most BUT NOT FOR VIDEO - not for iMovie nor FinalCut.
Yours Bengt W

Backing up iMovie Events and Projects As Opposed to Moving Them

Hi all. I'd like to make some backups of my iMovie events and projects. I read on the Apple site that the best way to do this is through iMovie itself and not the Finder. I should drag events to an external hard drive inside the iMovie window. When I do this, does it copy the event to the drive, or does it move it to the drive. I'd rather have a copy since I'm trying to make a backup. Also, how would I do this for projects to make a backup?
2) If I already copied my Events and Projects folder to an external drive, would I be able to use these in the future? Would I just place them inside my Movies folder under user and launch iMovie. These just seems easier in the event that everything crashed. Am I missing something here? It seems like it would be easier just to copy these two folders everytime, and save them in case of a hard drive crash.
Thanks.

If you drag your Projects folder over to the external drive icon in the Project Library, a pop-up window will give you the option of just duplicating the Project or getting the Project + associated Events too. I suggest going with the copy of Projects + Events to get a real duplicate backup of your iMovie project. By default iMovie assumes you want a copy.
If you want to move a Project/Events combo, you would hold down the ⌘ Command key and drag the project to the external drive icon in the Project Library.
Any time you want a backup, just drag that project folder to the external drive icon, but just make sure you do it regularly. Otherwise you'll end up with an older incomplete previous version of the project because the backup is based on an action you have to remember to do.
If you already dragged those folders over outside of iMovie, it's unlikely iMovie will be able to see or find those files. You would have to drag them back to the iMovies folders inside your Movies folder. So there's an extra step involved. And if you do that regularly, and don't mind dragging files back into the iMovies folders, that will work too. On the Mac, there's always more than one way to do things, so do what makes sense to you.

How do I move an iMovie event to iPhoto?

I simply want to put an imove event into iphoto.

Hi, oreolucy2.
Here are a couple resources that you may find helpful about moving files between Mac computers.
iMovie '11: Copy or move a project to an external hard disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2289
Mac Basics: File Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549
Cheers,
Jason H.

How do i import my iMovie event library to FCPX when the iMovie library is NOT in the home folder.

my situation:
my MBP is running two drives: a 160gb SSD that has my home folder, OS and all apps, and a 500gb HDD for data and non-essential software.
the HDD used to be my OS and home folder, so I used to run iMovie off it. but after installing the SSD, i am now running Lion off it, and it is now my new home folder.
so my iMovie events are now marooned on my ex-home folder, on what is now my HDD data drive.
I can import iMovie events no problem, as FCPX prompts for where the project files are. but FCPX doesn't prompt for the location of the iMovie events library, so how do i get those old iMovie events in?
i suppose i could copy all the events over to my SSD, then do the import, and then delete them. but that would take up a lot of space, and id rather not be copying and deleting so much data on the SSD.
is there any other way?

It is definitely to your advantage to use the FCP command to Import your iMovie Events all at once. The reason is you will not double up on space. FCP will create a hard lingk to your events so you can access them in FCP without altering the iMovie Event in any way, but without doubling the space.
So there are several ways you could approach this.
1) If you are not using iMovie anymore, you could simply move them to the iMovie Event folder at the top level of either your old drive, or any attached drive that is formatted correctly (Mac OS Extended (journaled). This would likely break any iMovie Projects that you currently have, so it is not recommended if you will continue to use iMovie.
2) If iMovie is still working, you can use iMovie to move the Events to a proper drive. Click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK in iMovie, and Command-Drag in iMovie to Movie Events to the drive you want while maintaining your project links. This option is probably only available to you if you have set up your old drive as your official Home directory.
3) As long as you set your "old" drive to be your Home Folder in OSX, you can just leave them where they are. OSX lets you have the Home folder on a different drive than your startup drive. This is not ususally recommended, but it is useful when you have an SSD. When I got my current Mac with an SSD, I moved my home folder to the internal hard drive but OSX and my Apps are on the SSD.
To do this, I followed the advice of longtime poster Pondini, who has a great website that walks you through this.
Here is a link.
Link to Pondini's site. http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
Link to Pondini's post on your topic. http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupOther.html

Moving iMovie 09's library to an external hard drive...

Hi.
I have iMovie 09, but have followed this procedure: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1026 to move my events to and external hard drive. Couldn't find a similar article specific to iMovie 09... I assume they work the same way...
Well, this COPIED the events folder but left a copy still taking up space on my Mac hard drive. Can I just delete the events folder from my Mac safely? If the whole purpose is to save room on my Mac, why does this procedure "copy" instead of "transfer" the files?
I remember a similar procedure for iPhoto libraries, where you'd transfer the library file to an external hard drive then restart iPhoto (now with an empty library) holding Option or CTRL (can't remember) and a hidden menu asking you to point iPhoto to a library file would appear... Is there a way to do this for iMovie 09? even want my Projects to be on the external hard drive... and every time I import clips I want them to default to the external; hard drive iMovie "library"...

Thank you all for the tips.
Workflow that worked for me (might help others):
1. Make sure the little "hard drive" icon is active within iMovie (listing all hard drives where your events and projects are, on the left hand side). If you never had any events on the external hard drive you will see in the "tree" there but it will be empty.
2. COMMAND+Drag projects one by one from the upper left panel (where you see their thumbnails and information such as "Broadcasted to Youtube", etc... onto the external hard drive.
2.1 iMovie will ask you if you want to move related EVENTS to the external hard drive too so that the projects don't have missing data. DO THIS or the projects will be broken and you will need to redo them from scratch...
2.2 The step above will move both the projects AND the events they have clips from to the external hard drive to the newly created iMovie Projects and iMovie Events (these are created automatically by iMovie when you drag your events/projects to the external hard drive. You don't need to create those folders in advance. Try it with a small event/project and you will see what I am talking about.
3. Now that you moved all your projects+related events to the external hard drive you can:
a. move the remaining events that have no projects related to them to the external hard drive via Command+drag INDIVIDUALLY from the iMovie library itself OR
b. move all the events at once from Finder > Movies > iMovie Events >>> to the iMovie Events folder on your external hard drive's iMovie Events folder...
I did 3a. just to be safe... but as Sheryl or Appleman said here, it is probable safe to do 3b since there are no projects related to the remaining events that could be broken....
HTH...

Move iMovie event to DVD before editing for storage

Hello,
I need to move a few iMovie events to DVD before editing to free up some space on my MBP. I'm making room for a live AV recording and have no idea how much space I will need. Will moving the event cause any problems? How is an event burned to DVD? I saw no options to do this (or move it to another HD) in any way.
ThankU,
DarrellSY

I am very sorry. I misread your original post.
You could maybe save it as a Data DVD, if your event is smaller than 4GB (or 8GB if you do a double layer DVD).
In Toast, create a Data DVD and drag these files in.
In iDVD, you can look up the instructions for creating a DVD ROM. Normally, you would burn your movie so you could view it on a regular DVD, then add the files you used to make it to the DVD ROM part.
Finally, you can create a burn folder on your Desktop, and burn to a DVD from there. That is probably the simplest way. it has been a while since I have done it, so maybe someone else can give you the step by step.

HT1026 Moved iMovie files to an external HD- Now have a project full of 'Source clip cant be found' yellow triangles.

I have foolishly moved my files to an external HD without following this advice. Now I'm left with a project full of 'Source clip cant be found' yellow triangles. Am I seriously going to have to start again or can I move them back somehow? They are from a variety of events and having tried moving some of them back into the imovie events folders using finder, I'm having no luck. Any help?!?

The other thread I found is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1908460&tstart=15
I had some initial success after moving my projects and events on to the ext drive. iMovie reconnected the missing source clips and all of my projects played fine, with music and video intact. Hooray!
However I opened iMovie last night only to discover the source clips missing again. The music and photo stills are fine, it's just the iPhoto video. When I pass the cursor over the ! it tells me it is looking for the files on my HD even though they no longer exist there as I chose the MOVE option, not the COPY.
Agh!
I also tried the consolidate media option which tells me not all of the clips and events are on my ext drive (funny that they were yesterday) but when I click the option to move them, nothing happens.
Do you still have a copy of the events on your ext drive? Can you try copying them over again?

How do I split Imovie events? I find the option in File menu and have selected the part of the event that I want to split before, but the option to split is not bolded (allowed) in the File menu.

I have imported video to iMovie and want to split the event. I have selected part of the event and when I go to File> Split the event before the selected clip it is not bolded in the menu and it is not an allowed selection. I had imported directly to an external HD so moved the event to the Mac HD and tried it again. This did not work either. Any ideas why this option is not available to me???

Use iMovie to move the events to your Movies folder, otherwise you're can't.

Are the iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders needed?

I'm using version 10.0.6 of iMovie and moved some of my projects to an external HD using File > Move Events to Library. I noticed in my Movies folder in my home directory that the related project folders under iMovie Events and iMovie Projects weren't moved. It seems that these are left over after upgrading iMovie and that it just uses the iMovie Library and iMovie Theater bundles. Can the iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders be safely deleted?

Yes they can be deleted if you have moved all the projects you want to work further on to iMovie 10, have checked that they are working OK, and are happy with switching permanently to iMovie 10. (There's no going back).
On the other hand if you leave them you can still use the earlier version of iMovie.
Geoff.

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