Opening project on different mac

if you have no file to save how can you open a project on another mac. I have a project where all the sound files are getting mixed up. i've tried everything but it always exports with the sound messed up. the only thing i can think to try is opening it up on a different mac and trying it. How do i do that?

You need an external hard drive, formatted Mac OSX Journaled - use Disk Utility t format if need be.
Connect the drive, open iMovie and within iMovie move the project *and all the Events* to the external drive.
Connect the drive to the other Mac, open iMovie, and edit (or copy across to that Mac's hard disk, but you can edit from the hard drive. If you want to edit on the portable, it is smoother if it's a Firewire drive

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I've got an interesting situation. I created a project on a Mac Pro, then used FCPX to consolidate media onto an external drive. Then, I realized that the "Organize Media" was needed to get all original files correctly located in the FCPX media folder, so I did that and the project would then open with my laptop (which I used as the test computer). Now, I handed the project over to another using a newer MBP than mine, and for some reason, he has been unable to open the project or even view the event media.
He's updated FCPX to 10.0.1, rebooted the computer, trashed FCP prefs, copied the Motion Templates to his Movies folder (I made a copy on the external drive as I have several templates for the project), and has done a permissions repair. All without change. The Mac Pro is a 2010 12-core running the latest version of Lion and my MBP test computer is running the latest version of Snow Leopard. His computer is running Snow Leopard.
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Tom was certainly right about the duplicate function being the best way to copy a project. However, the problem here was actually two-part. First, the editor did not tell me that he was able to see the project after updating to 10.0.1, but the project had missing media. He just said it still wasn't working.
Second, the missing media was only a result of him not properly copying the Motion Templates folder from the hard drive to his Movies folder.
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i have an iMovie project created on an iMac saved to an external.
I go to open the project up on my macbook and the audio is out of sync.
I go back to my iMac with the same project and it works just fine.
I'm a bit confused because both macs use Mac OS X 10.6.4 and iMovie 8.0.6
what other differences might there be?
any input is appreciated as I'd love to work on projects while out in the field!

Try exporting the iMovie project as a single full quality dv format quicktime file.
I use iMovie6 HD and this is my usual procedure that works well.
Make the movie in iMovie, will involve many separate clips. When finished, export (share) as a single full quality dv format quick time file. When I have an hours worth of smaller projects, I create a new iMovie project and import all of the quicktime .dv files for each separate short project. I add chapter markers in this project, then share with iDVD. I then burn an hours worth of stuff at best quality and distribute to family and friends.
iDVD seems to work better with iMovie source that has fewer clips.
BTW: Are you having problems with standard def or hi def iMovie source. Another part of my procedure is that I take the raw tapes and download the entire thing into one iMovie project. I don't edit or change the footage at all, just want to archive to DVD for posterity. In this case, I want to share the iMovie project with iDVD directly. This has worked OK for standard def projects, but my first hi def project (1080i) that I tried, the sound was out of sync. To fix this, I had to create a regular DV widescreen iMovie project, and drag all the clips into it from the HD project. It took over an hour for my humble mac mini to convert the files, but I was then able to share with iDVD and the finished DVD worked ok.
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