No pictures from iPhoto

I moved my iPhoto Library to an external drive to free up space on my iMac and iPhoto works fine but I cannot see the iPhoto Library in iMovie.
It should just know where it is. Right ?

Hi frodo... I have a similar situation. Normally I still use iMovie HD(5), but occasionally open HD6 if someone asks a question about it that I want to investigate. When I do so, I immediately lose the link between HD5 and iPhoto (HD6 remains OK). The Photos window becomes blank but includes an instruction to install a version of iTunes (which is already installed and which has no effect!).
This problem then remains for some time, after which for no obvious reason the link is restored. Presumably some action on my part re-activates the link but I have not been able to ascertain what that action has been.
Not much help to you I know, but maybe the pics will miraculously reappear one day. In the meantime you can drag and drop pics you want from the iphoto library folder (found in your Users>Pictures folder) into the iMovie Clips Pane.
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