Saving iMovie Events to disk image???

I have a feeling what I want is not possible (but it absolutely should be). I would like to be able to save video files "iMovie Events" on an encrypted disk image. When I create and mount a disk image it shows up in the Event Library but has that little yellow alert triangle in the icon and nothing can be added to it.
Any thoughts on how to make this work -- or a definitive answer that is isn't possible so I quit wasting my time looking everywhere for the solution.
If the latter is the case APPLE DEVELOPMENT NOTE: Add it!!! It's a very simple way to keep "personal" videos and confidential video files from being seen by anyone but the intended viewer.
Thanks for the help.

Well I tried this and it's the same result for me. I don't have time or video to import tonight try the following suggestion, but I wonder if you can get a desired outcome if you:
1. Import your video normally to events
2. Use Disk Utility and create Read Only image from the new Event Folder.
Read only will keep the size of the img to the total size of the clips in the event. Since the editing is non destructive this should be ok.
I can import from AVCHD data stored in disk images and do this all the time (not encrypted though).
I've no explanation for why this may work and the other way won't it's just that sometimes getting around a 'bug' means getting the same result with different steps

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