saving to a lacie drive

Gretchen,

If you have already created an iMovie project, moving it is just a matter of dragging and dropping. It will be copied over to the external drive.

Also to ensure that the drive works properly with iMovie, make sure that it is formatted Mac OS Extended.

You can check the formatting by selecting the drive in the Finder and then choosing Get Info from the File menu.

Matt

Gretchen,

It sounds like you are in the process of importing clips into an iMovie project that is saved on the LaCie external drive.

I think you're all set.

Can you see your iMovie project in the Finder if you look on the external drive?

Matt

Gretchen,

It sounds like you have created two separate iMovie projects. To consolidate all your clips in one place you can open both projects and simply copy and paste clips from one project to the other.

In an iMovie project, any clips you import are kept in that project file and are only available to that one particular iMovie project.

I'm assuming you are importing from a camera. Have a look at this tutorial. I think it will be helpful. Be sure to play the little video!

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/im2-1.html

And to answer your last question, yes, you'll be perfectly fine editing the project on the external drive.

There are more helpful tutorials here:

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/

You'll be an expert in no time!

Matt