Saving I Movie Files

A few years ago I purchased an external hard drive and since my older computer had a smaller HD I worked and saved all my I movie stuff to the external HD. I now have a newer Intel based I Mac with lots of Storage capacity. I would like to save my projects to the internal drive and back-up copies periodically to the external drive. How do I teach I movie to save to the internal and not the external? Thanks, Dr. Steve

when you select "New Project", you tell iM where to locate it ...

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