changing default video upload location in imovie 10.1.8

When your hard drive is getting full, you can move your iMovie library to an external drive formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Before doing that, open iMovie and select the iMovie library title in the media sidebar, and do a File/Consolidate Library Media. Then move the library. You can just drag it to the external drive. Then when you import into iMovie the originals of the media will go into the Library located on the external drive.

Projects themselves cannot be independently transferred. Only the library that contains the project can be transferred, carrying the project along with it.

Clips imported into iMovie are stored in the iMovie Library in a folder titled Original Media. They are full sized duplicates of original clips, not links. If you have the original clips also stored in a different place on your computer hard drive, then you will have two sets of original clips, one in iMovie and one in the different location, thus doubling the usage of hard drive space. You can move the folder of clips from your hard drive to an external drive, and that will reduce the use of your storage space.

-- Rich

Go to your external drive and double click on the library. iMovie will open in that library.

Another way is to open iMovie while holding down the Option key. You will get a dialogue box where you can choose which library that you want iMovie to open. Navigate from the box to your external drive and select your iMovie library.

-- Rich

Not sure what you mean by "a condensed item". The iMovie Library

that you copied from your Movies folder should have an icon that looks like

this:

Is that what you copied over to the external drive? I would not delete

anything from your internal drive until you have verified that everything is

working properly on the library that you copied over to the external drive.

That is, that iMovie will open in it, all your projects and media are there,

and you can create and share out projects from it.

Yes, when you open iMovie in the library on the external drive any media

that you import into iMovie will be stored in that library. As long as your

external drive is plugged in to your computer, when you open iMovie in the

library stored on it iMovie will point to it and find it. Make sure that the

library is stored at the root level of the drive, i.e, not in any folder. You

can open iMovie in the external drive library by double clicking on the

library's icon.

-- Rich

You are welcome. :)

-- Rich