Possible to divert digitizing clips to external hard drive - iMovie 6????

I have many many hours of fottage and only 80 gigs on the internal hard drive. Is there a way to tell the application to digitize the clips onto an EXTERNAL hard drive? I know this is possible with FCP Express, but I wish to do this with iMovie to take advantage of some of the great 'auto' features.
Anyone...PLEASE ADVISE.
Thanks
Lee
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www.xart.com

iMovie does not use a "scratch" drive. When video is imported from a camera it is stored inside the current iMovie project. So if your project is on Drive A, that's where the video goes. If the project is on Drive B, it goes there.
When you create a new project, simply navigate to the drive/folder where you want to store the project (in the same dialog where you name the project) and save the project there.
Karl

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