My HUGE fce project is to important to screw up.. i must move media files

i have 90 gig of captured video and should have sent media source files to external drive but i did not. so can i export these files to external drive as qt movie.. then clean up internal drive and change destination to external drive for remaining video i need to capture and import the older video back in to start production......OR am i setting myself up for problems and should instead bite the bullet and start all over from scratch and recapture the 90 gig..
im scared?????

If you're just starting out simply delete the captured clips from the project, move the video and then reimport it. Reset the scratch disk to the other drive and you're good to go.

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