Video + music missing after moving iphoto + itunes to external drive

There is probably a really obvious answer to this but I have tried searching without success. I have just moved my iphoto and itunes libraries to an external drive to free up space on my HD. Do I have to do the same with imovie in order for the music and iphoto video clips in my existing projects to work properly? Or can you redirect iMovie 09 to look for these files on the external drive (as you do with iphoto and itunes)?
At the moment in imovie the iphoto video icon still appears under my HD even though I have moved the library and the iphoto video clips and itunes tracks I've used in my projects are now labelled missing with yellow exclamation marks. How do I fix these broken links? I understand I can drag events over to the ext drive but my iphoto videos are not listed as an event.
Many thanks!

UPDATE! According to Apple support, there is no way to re-link those assets. They suggested two options, 1) recreate the folder structure with the missing music on HD1. I tried that but was unsuccessful. 2) Place the music again into the project. I have a lot of music with edits and did not want to use this time consuming approach, but surprisingly after replacing the first song, all the songs updated. Unusual workaround. HTH, Scott

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