imovie 10.0.3 update events from external HDD

I am having the same problem....but I also am trying to figure out how to upload the videos from camera to iMovie, it doesnt have any options (that I can see) to be saved on the my external hard drive. I cannot have it saved on the internal Mac HDD because in a 2 week time, it will be full! I am trying to search online but this is the closest question I have come across to my problem. 😕

GargMac and jodimike,

I don't have any answers, but am experiencing a similar situation. iMovie 10 will not recognize my external either. Frankly, I hate this new version. The engineers have moved things around, deleted things and there is NO manual explaining why or how to achieve the end result you need given the new version. So frusterating!

I've actually decided to go back to the 9.0 version. At least I know (for now) it works and I can get a qualtiy video!

I was experiencing the same problem with accessing/saving movies to an external drive and was trying to figure it out when I saw this discussion. I finally decided to try opening iMovie the same way I open iPhoto when I need to choose a different library to open (I have several iPhoto libraries). To open iMovie, press and hold the "Option" key while clicking to open iMovie. I tried it and it did ask which library I wanted to open but only listed one library. However, at the bottom of that screen, it gave the option to "locate" the library which I was able to do successfully. I was able to access (from my external hard drive) all my old videos that had been imported to iMovie in older versions. When I imported a new video from my camera card, it saved the video to the library on my external drive because that is the library which was open. Hope this helps.

Hello All,
Also no answer but am having the same problem. All my catalogueing via folders is up in smoke and no external HDs (where I would normally directly store raw footage when importing) showing up on the iMovie interface. It is a pain the arse to go back to the earlier version - why APPLE, pray tell, do you continue to lower expectations user-friendly functions. Shall try the option+open for a library but this too is extremely inconvenient if it works like iPhoto because you have to log out to log in to a new library whereas I just want to be able to see my multiple HDs directly from the iMovie menu and then the folders within folders I have layered in there - to make it easy to FIND STUFF. Wake up Apple, you are NOT meeting your customer's needs or desires.

Thanks to the posters who are helping the rest of us lost in the dark with possible solutions - free fix-its for Apple which they don't deserve.

GargMac,
Exactly the same problem. Awaiting some help still. Thanks for posting.

GargMac,

When I updated my new iMovie (10.0.3) it automatically updated the events + projects on all my HD's and labelled them as libraries. So when I open iMovie (option + open) it lists the libraries ....... which meant I had to go back to Finder and my external HD's to see which library number was on which HD. What was once a "no-step function" (i.e. viewing all my HD's and their contents from within iMovie) is now a multiple step one. Can't imagine how APPLE views this as an improvement, to make something less efficient and more time consuming. Perhaps they don't have a lot of videos to edit.

Can I resurrect this discussion? I just upgraded to iMovie 10 and need an answer here. Did anyone figure out how to update projects and events on an external HD?

BTW - Be aware that iMovie v9 DOES NOT work in El Capitan!!!!

Hi!

Did anyone find an answer to this? I've been searching for an hour on discussions. Thanks, Lynn