Using an External Hard Drive when creating Movies

Hi
I am trying to ask iMovie09 to store the projects I am creating on an external Hard Drive. I have a hard drive that I was using with my G^ and iMovie06HD without any problem.
I don't see anything in IM09 that will give you the option of where to store the movies. I have a huge backlog of film to edit and I don't fancy killing my new hard drive.
I read somewhere that a drive has to be specially formatted for a Mac. I bought the WD drive at the Apple Store and have been using it with IM06 so figure it should be ok... however when I see it in IM09 in the left hand Event Library column it has a yellow triangle sign on it and I cannot view its contents.
Any clues?
Thanks
Terri

If you right click on your drive in the Finder, click GET INFO and check how it is formatted.
For a drive to work in iMovie 09 it must be formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled.)
For a properly formatted drive, you can move Events to it from within iMovie by Command-Drag.
For new stuff from camcorder, you can select the destination on the import screen.
For footage on disk that you want to bring into iMovie, click File/Import.
If you have a lot of these, you can create a folder at the top level of your external drive called iMovie Events. Then create subfolders inside this folder. The subfolder names will be the Event names in iMovie. Drag the footage into these subfolders. The next time you open iMovie, it will create thumbnails for all of these. (This is the same thing that happens when you do File/Import, but it enables you to do more than one at a time.)

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