Can I password protect my iMovie 9 or 11 event and/or project?

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Can I password protect my iMovie 9 or 11 event and/or project?

I have created an event in iMovie09 using the internal MACbook camera. I want to password protect the event so that no one can open/view the movie without the appropriate password - I need to provide 2 levels of security for the movie for privacy purposes. Can I save the file outside of iMovie, password protect it, and then import it into iMovie when I'm ready to view? I'm open to multi-step ways to make it happen!

iMovie (iOS), Mac OS X (10.5.8), iMovie 09

Posted on Nov 30, 2012 3:06 PM

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Nov 30, 2012 9:55 PM in response to NWBfromOH

you have diff. options:

• what I would do, simply purchase some small 2.5" usb-drive, drag Project&Events FROM WITHIN iMovie onto it and put ext.drive in a 'secure' place. whenever you have to work with these Events, plug it in, you're done.

• … if Events are small, and wallet big, you get 128GBs usb-flash mem-sticks .... tape the stick under a drawer (omg! I told the secret place!!)

• if you need that extra grain of security: after transfering the two folders, create a disk-image with the disk-utility, apply a secure password, drag both folders into it - you can NOT work from such a disk-image, you have to have it manually open and drag both folders out of it into original location.

btw: you lose the pw, all data is lost! no way to restore it … ok, some friends in Fort Meade could ……

• finally: why keeping this stuff at all? complete the Project, export the final movie, erase all traces. keep the movie where and how you like (see above suggestions).

being paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you!

scnr, I HAD to add that 😉

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