What if you move events from one external drive to another?

I presently have all my iMovie events on one external drive, and I have some projects on my local iMac drive that use clips from the events on the external drive.
What happens to the projects if I use iMovie to move the events from the current external drive to another external drive? If I open one of the projects, will it ask me where to find the event clips, or will I break all my projects?

In theory, if you do it within iMovie, it should work. However, I would recommend that you test a single event first before moving everything.

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Select the text on the line below by dragging across it. Don't include the blank space at the end of the line. Only the text should be highlighted.
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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