Sharing a iMovie 08 library between ultiple machines

Is it possible to share a iMovie 08 library (Events and Projets) between multiple machines?
Cheers
Henrik.

Hi, Henrik. I had the same question a few pages back. I haven't seen an answer yet in this forum, but the answer I got from my friend who works as an Apple Genius is yes you can share the events, though not at the same time, if they are stored on a drive that multiple computers can access. I don't know if you can share projects; I think probably not as the project files reside on the local machine and not the external drive. I may be wrong about this, however.
I haven't yet been able to test this out (waiting on iLife 08 and a new iMac), so I cannot verify this myself, but I do hope my friend is right.

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