Moving iMovie file

I want to create more space on my primary hard drive.
Can an iMovie file be moved to another partition or hard drive to make room without causing issues?
Thanks.
G5 Dual Core 2.3   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

soulartist,
Feel free to move your project files where you like.
One caveat, if you are using an external drive (any drive for that matter) it must be formatted Mac OS Extended to work properly with iMovie.
Matt

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