move unfinished imovie from one mac to another?

Hi

I feel hesitated about this but this is what I know.

• USB - external hard disk - not so good - might work for transport but not good on editing from

• HAS TO BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange DOESN'T WORK !
Even harmfull)

Connect ext hard disk.
Open iMovie'09
In iMovie browser move movie to the external hard disk - DON'T try to make the move
outside iMovie - can mess-up things and are no safe way to do it - AS FAR AS I messed things up.

Yours sharing - Bengt W

I would revise Bengt's remarks just a little bit.

A USB External Hard Drive is fine for both editing and moving. However, the drive must be formatted is MAC OS Extened (journaled) as Bengt says.

Then in iMovie, click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME.
Hold down the Command Key while dragging the small icon in the iMovie Event Library List to the small icon for your external USB drive in the same iMovie Event Library List. Then do the same command-drag with your project in the Project Library List. Finally, point to the project in the Project library List, and click File/Consolidate to make sure that all project assets (photos, music, etc.) are on the external disk.

When you get to the new Mac, plug in the USB drive, and imovie should recognize your projects and events and you can continue editing from the external drive.

If you prefer, you can command drag the projects and events to the internal drive in the new mac as before.

Is it a USB thumb drive or a USB hard disk? The hard disk will work for sure.
iMovie may not recognize a thumb drive.

A workaround would be to use DISK UTILITY to create a readable writable disk image that is large enough to hold your events and projects, but small enough to fit on your thumb drive. If you mount the disk image, it should be visible in iMovie. Once you have moved everything, you could drag the disk image to the thumb drive using the Finder.

I am not at home so can't test this right now.