Storing iMovie events on external disk

OK, I want to store my iMovie events on an external disk. (why does 6 GB of HD video on SD card take up 30GB on my disk??) Anyway, I obviously want to work with these clips in iMovie. How do I do that without importing? Thanks

Hi
Roger Barre - gave You the most important information but there are more to this.
A. 6Gb becomes 30Gb - YES the format stored on Your SD-Card is very compacted and as that not suited to be edited. iMovie and FinalCut needs it much more un-packed to be able to cut in individual frames etc. So it has to be in Apple Intermediat Codec (AIC) or any other codec that the video editor accepts.
B. Events window in iMovie can show two faces
• Events sorted by Year only - and if small button top right hand corner is clicked
• Events as stored per Hard disk and then in a Yearly manner
No moving of Events and Projects on DeskTop/Finder - is a very GOOD Advice - I don't
C. External hard disks
• MUST be - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted - Nothing else will work for VIDEO even if it looks like it
NO - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange  - will not work
• I prefer FireWire ones as USB/USB2 performs BADLY to ME !
Yours Bengt W

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