Storing the Raw footage

I'm currently using iMovie 9. (Not the latest one - thinking about moving to Final Cut X as the latest iMovie update seemed like a step back to me)
I have about 20 completed projects and exported movies with matching events still intact. These go back several years. If I look at the external harddrive where my Raw video footage is stored (RAID 1; WD drive) I am noticing that every clip is stored inside the event folder and named something along the line of clip2:10:23:18.mov
If I am not interested in the project file and data that are inside these folders, can I just offload the .mov file and store somewhere else if I need them down the road? Are these huge files technically still RAW or are they down converted using some proprietary iMovie compression?
Hope I am making sense.
Thanks,
Cheers.

You have several options. The Sony should have recorded in AVCHD. This is captured by iMovie as Apple Intermediate Codec. The Canon T3i should have captured as h.264 in an MOV container. It may have remained as h.264, or iMovie may have converted it to Apple Intermediate Codec.
If you made a "Camera Archive" of the footage from the Sony, you can use that.
If not, you can simply use your clips in the iMovie Events (as you were asking). You will want all the clips within the Event folder, but you do not need the subfolders such as Thumbnails and Cache. These will import into FCPX and should be fine for most purposes. Final Cut Pro can handle Apple Intermediate Codec just fine, but if you started with FCPX, it would use the ProRes 422 codec instead. The ProRes 422 codec is better if you may do a lot of processing on the clips, but for most home movies, it will not matter.
Your other option is to have iMovie convert the clips to FCPX.
First, check to see if you have iMovie 11 (Version 9.08 or 9.09) or do you have iMovie 09 (Version 8.06). The versions are confusing.
If you have iMovie version 9 (iMovie 11) and Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.8, you can haave Final Cut Pro X do the conversion, and it will not cost you any disk space.
If you have iMovie Version 10 (the new one) and FInal Cut Pro X version 10.1 (the current one), you can initiate and transfer event by event from within the new imovie. Here again, it does not take any extra space.
Gotta go but let me know if you have any more questions.
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