Placing an analog cam-film into an EXTERNAL Hard drive.

Thank you for the advice. It solved my problem.
Now I have two more questions:
1. With a previous device I used for uploading an analog cam-film onto iMovies, I was asked to state what drive I wanted it placed in, as My iMac is hooked up to two external hard drives. Elgato will not allow me to do this, as far as I can see. Is there a solution, without having to move the movie from the internal HD to the external one?
2. I was once told that to complete the creation of the PROJECT from the EVENT, there was a further step, which would place a flay on the right-hand top corner of the project. Could you elucidate please?

I am not sure which ElGato product you are using, but if you have the EyeTV 3 software, you can set the target drive in preferences.
EyeTV/Preferences.../Recording
then change EyeTV Archive Location

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