Use as external hard drive as iMovie folder location

I'd like to know how I can use a partition on my external firewire drive as my primary iMovie storage location. I don't want my small PowerBook hard drive as the main iMovie storage.

No, you cannot move individual clips that are inside iMovie projects, but you can move entire iMovie projects. One way to do it is to open your project in iMovie, then use "File -> Save Project As ..." and save the project to a folder on your external hard disk. Or you can exit iMovie, find your project with the Finder, and drag it to your external hard disk. In both cases, you end up with two copies. Once you are confident that the copy on your external disk is good, you can remove the old copy from your internal drive.
iTunes has a Preference setting for the location of songs. After you change it, use the "Consolidate Library" menu item to get all your music files moved by iTunes.
With iPhoto, you have to quit iPhoto, find your iPhoto library folder, and drag it. Then remove or rename the original so that iPhoto can't find it anymore. When you start iPhoto the next time, it will complain that it can't find it's library, and prompts you for the new location. Pop into the iPhoto discussion forum for more advice.
With all three apps, don't move individual files. Move the entire folder!

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    Yes.
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