Moving iMovie projects to another disk

On my desktop, a warning box appeared telling me that the start-up disc is almost full.
Disk Utility confirms that on the 560 GB capacity disk, there is only 1 GB space available.
In iMovie on that same disk, there are several dozen movie projects.
I would like to move most of these projects to another disk in the MacPro (there are three other disks), but still want to work on the iMovie projects on the start-up disk.
Is there a way of storing the files on another disk, and still working on the projects on the start-up disk?
Thank you in advance, Isshi.

You can store Projects and/or Events on an external or secondary disk. The disk must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
For moving projects see this.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#move7d66613
For moving project assets (events, photos, music) see this.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6c7c9
For moving Events, see this.
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6d42c

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There are many things reg. this.
What do You want ?
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• Video-DVD to be played on standard DVD-Players
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