iMovie 10.0 and Network Drives

Looks like we have some good news ahead. I was playing around with iMovie 10.0.5 on a certain operating system public beta 2 and it let me connect to my unRAID server over SMB, create a new library directly to disk (no image required), and copy and edit projects on the network disk. Oddly enough this didn’t work if I connected over AFP ("Libraries cannot be saved at this location | The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not supported. Select a different location.”). When I switched back to 10.9.4 and tried this I got several errors resulting in broken projects.

Fingers crossed this doesn’t disappear.

Seems it not made it in the production release😟

It's still not possible to create or open a library on afp or smb shares.

The wokrarround with the sparseimage is one solution, but for me a little bit dangerous. A little damage on the sparsefile and complete content is gone. And using it over network, the risk is even higher. I knew this problem from timemachine sparseimages. So I will be warned.

Maybe using the good old "NFS" is a better solution than afp/smb with sparseimages. You can mount a nfs-share easy with cmd-k in finder and "nfs://servername/share". (Maybe you have to enable nfs protocol on your NAS and give the host permissions).

Creating or opening an iMovie-Library on this nfs-shares works like charm.

I have try this with OSX10.10.5 and iMovie 10.0.9 and QNAP-NAS.

Spot on worked for me too, amazing been running round the houses on that one.

Tom

Your solution worked masterfully, these forums and the people in them are so helpful! Thanks MacSjon1