Using Final Cut off a Hard-drive

I'm still learning the ropes with Final Cut Express 4. I'm using Final Cut on two separate computers and want to be able to work back and forth on the same project. Basically I want to have the entire project on a hard drive that I can transfer back and forth with. Looking into it, I'm seeing that the actual project is only a few KB, and the footage and audio is buried in a FC Express folder in my Movies folder. How do I set it up that the entire project is on a hard drive?

You move the media to an external drive and reconnect the project to the media. You take the external drive from one machine to the other and take the project with it.

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