Swap project and event: how to?

Hi,
I've started to use iMovie 10 but I can't figure out how to switch views... I can see the "swap project and event" menu item but it's greyed out... this is surprising since Apple depicts the conventional view with projects top and timeline bottom as the first screenshot on the iMovie website...
Can someone please advise?

I too was having problems and pushing play did not help.
However clicking NEW EVENT made it happen.
Somehow with all my clicking around I lost my original project so I had to start all over again.
Personally I got along so well with the old iMovie I am having difficulty with this one and I really miss having the window in another monitor

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Hi dalbatross,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Did you set up your new computer by creating a Time Machine backup and restoring from it?
If so, the Events and Projects that were on your internal Macintosh HD would copied to your new computer.
Here is another way to copy the events & projects to the new computer from the external drive:
iMovie Help: Work with multiple libraries
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
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Connect a hard disk that contains the target library to your computer, or copy the target library to your computer.
Choose File > Open Library, and choose an option from the submenu.You can choose from recently opened libraries at the top of the submenu, locate an existing library on your computer, or create a new library.
The selected library is opened in the Libraries list, with the first event selected and its contents displayed in the browser.
In the Libraries list, select the event that contains the item you want to move or copy.
In the browser, select the item you want to move or copy.Note: To select multiple items, hold down the Command key as you click the items you want to select, or drag a selection rectangle around the items.
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- Judy

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Very convenient, widely appreciated:
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/
an excellent 5$ investment!
Plan B) for free:
In Finder, you could drag the not-needed Events/Projects to some other location (e.g. same drive, a folder called 'Events-hidden'. When you bring it back, it could be, you have to tell FCPX to re-connect… less convenient as the ProjectManager, but optional.

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I tried to import a video into iMovie. Its says their is not enough space on the destination disk. I deleted many projects, and events. Nothing changed. What files do I delete and how?

Hard drive full or near full:
You are going to have to delete, move or archive your data to regain hard drive space.
Have you emptied your iMac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Other things you can do to gain space.
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive older emails you want to save.
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Uninstall apps that you no longer use. If the app has a dedicated uninstaller, use it to completely uninstall the app. If the app has no uninstaller, then just drag it to the OS X Trash icon and empty the Trash.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its thing initially, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run all of the processes in the tabs. Let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be moved, also, to the external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
You may have to Purchase an external FireWire or Thunderbolt hard drive to move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
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okay, do a search for iMovie cache or iMovie thumbnails, and you'll probably find them. Unless you choose reject clips and then move rejected clips to the trash, then check the cache or thumbnails, your clips won't be truly gone. Just deleting them from the windows doesn't quite work. Sorry I can't remember the technical name for 'em, just going by my experience. Also, try deleting your project, and throwing that rascal in the trash, then start again. Usually it's becuz you chose copy the original rather than move it (to be on the safe side), like I did......
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I have a one generation Air Port Extreme with a 250GB USB drive attached.
I copied some older FCP X projects and events to that drive as a backup.
FCP X 10.1.4 has now been released and these older files need to be updated.
However when I click on the update command in FCPX none of these older files are recognized (greyed out)
but there is a note about selecting "SAN" drives.
A little searching seemed to indicate that I need to declare this file a Network Attached File for this to work.
The basic question in this forum is can i set up the USB disk on my APEx as a NAS?
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I have created a project in iMovie 10, which I would now like to share with a colleague, in a form in which he can edit just like I can. I do not see a way to copt projects and events to an external hard drive, the way I could from previous versions of iMovie. Any suggestions?

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http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov882dee351
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I have copied final cut projects and events to my Mac internal drive from an external drive on which they were located. I could not do this via FCPX because of a problem: FCPX being unable to open up unless [it says] some corrupt files are either restored or move. Neither FCPX nor I are able to do this [restoring or moving out of the corrupt files].
So, after copying the events and projects onto my Mac's HD, I tried to open the currentproject in FCPX, but the application states that it has to be opened from within FCPX only.
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Try Digital rebellions tool,
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
they have a trial version, 15 days, I think you will find that this may work for you.
Two things that may cause this
Corrupt render files, solution, delete the render files in your projects.
Corrupt media files, Pro maintenance Tool
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My movie got "muted" by YouTube (copyright issue), so I need to go back and edit the project to remove a soundtrack, but the project has lots of yellow warning markers on various clips.
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you want to hold the command key and drag the project file to hard drive. The hard drive can be even one of the portable my passport. I have several. It just needs to be formatted Macos extended. Once you drag the project it will ask if you want to take the events with you....say yes. Viola ... all movies projects and events stay together. However, if you just want to show the movie after its edited, share to itunes and create a version that can play in itunes.

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I don't know an easy way to fix that if you are using a symlink.
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http://pondini.org/OSX/SetupOther.html

Project and Event Mgmt - Revisited

I started a discussion a few weeks ago about how to manage FCP x projects and events.
That discussion is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15630947#15630947
However, as I look more closely at my workflow as permitted by FCPx I have a quandary that I suspect others have as well.
Once I have created an event and a related project in the Events and Projects folder respectively, the question arises as what to do with those elements when you are done for the time being with both.
I have created a large number of projects, each with their own event. As I move on from them, I would find it useful to have them not show up in the active Project and Event lists in FCP X. But I do want to get back to them from time to time.
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Rex,
As a freelance editor I'm always working on multiple projects and use this workflow to hide, show or backup projects and events.
As your aware while working on a project/event, these need to exists in the Final Cut Events folder and the Final Cut Projects folder.
In order to hide an event, simply move the event or events from the main Final Cut Events directory, back one level.
Example: I'm currently working on a productions where the events live on my Machintosh HD. First I create a folder called Final Cut Events HIDE.
Under your Home Directory/Movies/Final Cut Events/ move the event you'd like to hide to the Final Cut Event HIDE folder.
Be sure Final Cut Pro X has been quite.
When you re-open Final Cut Pro X, you should have a empty event library.
If you'd like to re-work on these events, simple quite Final Cut Pro X, drag and drop your "hidden" event or events back into the Final Cut Events folder, re-open FCP X, and there you have it.
Use this exact same approach for projects.
Regarding backup, you can manually backup your events/projects, however I only do this if the edit is completely finished and exists in my Final Cut Pro HIDE folders. All I then do is copy and paste to a backup HD.
Hope that helps.

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I know I can move the project and referenced events but will I be able to continue to work on the project unhindered.
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The easiest way to fix the hosts file is to restore it from a backup that predates the modification, or to copy the unmodified file from another Mac. If you can't do that, then do as below.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
open -e /etc/hosts
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Paste into a Terminal window by pressing command-V. A TextEdit window should open. At the top of the window, you should see this:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1                              localhost
255.255.255.255          broadcasthost
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Below that, you may see some other lines. The first 9 lines should be exactly as above, apart from differences in the blank space within lines. Otherwise you can't use this procedure—STOP and ask for guidance.
If the contents of the TextEdit window are as described, close it, then enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (by copy and paste):
sudo sed -i~ '10,$d' /etc/hosts
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