One iMAc, two users - One iMove location?

Well, hello all.
Just taken the plunge to the 'white side' for the first time and currently in the process of setting up my lovely new machine.
I am running two accounts on the iMAc - one for me, one for my wife. I would like us both to be able to access one iMovie folder instance of movies, in the same way that I have set up iPhoto [on an external hard drive]. I happily accept that I can only have one instance of iMovie open at a time, but it woudl be much more convenient if we can both access the same Projects.
I am drawing blanks on how to set this up both by googling it and also by seaching through here. Is this because it is not possible, or am I being dumb?

The answer is to use your hard drive.
The hard drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled), not FAT32.
You can import new events from your camcorder to the external drive by selecting it on the import screen.
For events that are already on your internal drive, open iMovie and click VIEW/EVENTS BY DISK. You should see an icon for your hard drive in the event library list. Then hold down the command key while dragging the icon for the event to the icon for the drive.
You can move projects to the external drive in a similar fashion.
Check out iMovie's Help. You will find info on moving events, info on moving projects, and info on the Consolidate command.

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I want to share one iTunes library with two user accounts on the same iMac.
I've followed the tutorial where you move the iTunes Music folder to a shared location HD/Shared/iTunes and then pointed both iTunes to that location via the advanced menu, but only the admin account has the music. The other user account iTunes shows nothing.
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All we're trying to do is share one mac. My wife and I have our own log in user accounts, but want to have the same music and iPhotos accessible on our own set-ups.
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Out of interest I got this to work.
I made a folder called 'All Music' and put all the album folders in it.
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