Stumped on moving libraries

I am trying to move imovie libraries to a new external hard drive.
#1 - I formatted the new external hard drive to the mac os extended journaled
#2 - I opened imovie, created a new library on the new drive
#3 - tried to drag in imovie an existing library to the new library
#4 - tried dragging an existing event to the new library
#5 - looked under "file" and the move/copy options are greyed out
#6 - made sure all libaries are updated
#7 - scratched my head
#8 - looked around this forum and the net
seems I've tried every option that I can put my paws on, not sure why I can't do a simple drag/drop, or copy, or transfer, or whatever to the new external hard drive. Actually, can't even move an event from one library to another on the same hard drive that is already operating with two libraries.
Any ideas what I can do to move from my internal hard drive to my external drive?
Thanks

one other thing, I use FCP X. I fired up imovie 10.0.3 (all software updated to latest everything) in order to actually consolidate random old imovie files and finally get them in FCP X.
The send to final cut pro option is also greyed out. What gives? That's my final ultimate goal, consolidate everything under FCP X.
Any idea why my media is basically a view as is only right now?
Thanks

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