They are labeled imovie events and imovie projects. Oct 27, 2009 to save your projects to an external hard drive or key drive if your files arent too large, go to the imovie help menu and search for save project. From within imovie so you dont break existing projects, click view group events by disk. You can even have multiple library files open at once. To save projects a project in imovie is automatically saved to the computer hard drive.
You might do this, for example, to create a duplicate copy of your entire video library or to copy an event to a friends hard disk. Such as losing sound effects, plug ins, audio files, etc would doing this slow down the program at all. How imovie stores files imovie 09 has its own unique way of storing files. One it has been exported as a selfcontained file you can put it on a flash drive. If you started a project in imovie 09, and would like to continue editing in imovie 10, you must update the project.
Can i store all of my logic projects on an external hard drive. Note make sure the connected external hard disk is in fat32 file format. Well be looking at imovie for this particular howto but its really the same whether youre using a version of imovie or final cut pro x or similar. When importing video into imovie use the save import dialogue box and navigate to your external.
How to create new imovie library on external hard drive. May 27, 2014 well be looking at imovie for this particular howto but its really the same whether youre using a version of imovie or final cut pro x or similar. You can start cutting a project on your iphone, then use airdrop or icloud drive to wirelessly transfer it to your ipad. Choose a save location, such as your external hard drive, from the list by clicking on it. Moving imovie 09s library to an exte apple community. Youll find that after you save all the changes to the project then open it again, all the edits you made are lost. Here we will show you steps to copy or move a project to an external hard disk or usb flash drive. Watch how to move imovie 09 projects from one computer to another computer with imovie 09 using a usb flashdrive. I would like to move all imovie imove 11 events to a specific folder of an external hard drive. So the best thing to do is to create or move imovie project to an external drive. The best way to edit an imovie project in the media lab or on different computers is to save your project into an imovie library on a removable drive such as a flash drive. Apple documents a means to do this, but without specifying the folder.
You can take video clips from your camera roll, transitions, add music, overlays and much more. If you have imovie 09 or later, heres what you need to do. Basically if you create a project in imovie and save it to a volume thats fat32 windowsdos or unix rather than mac os extended, youlll have issues. Transferring imovie to external hard drive macrumors forums. After it tries to load answered by a verified mac support specialist. Understanding how and where imovie stores events and projects will help you manage your videos. Refer to the how to start an imovie 11 project guide for setting up your scratch disks. Just drag eventsprojects and drop them on the icon. If so, is it as simple as just dragging and dropping all my project files from my internal drive onto my new external drive.
Flash drive, external hard drive, or other storage device only video, audio, or image files move all your files to your scratch disk location. Dec 27, 2019 with this, you can have the option of having the finished imovie project saved to external usb drive with a large capacity, a network drive or external firewire drive. When you are in imovie, with this particular project open, have you tried to save project as to the external drive. Can i work on an imovie project from an external harddrive. To save the event to the hd hard drive of your mac, click macintosh hd on the drop down menu. May 26, 20 a proper way to move imovie projects into an external hard drive to save space mac imovie v. Imovie 08 or 11 will recognize external hard drive but not.
Your work must be set up correctly before you begin editing and importing your work. The first part of this guide shows you how to create an imovie library on a flash drive, and then how to move your project into the new library. How to save imovie projects to an external hard drive. How to transfer videos from onedrive to imovie on iphone. Make a second folder and name them for each of you.
Check the storgae space available on your mac to assure enough space for movie exporting. Using imovie 11 with external storage what you need to know before you start. Moving your library to an external hard drive doesnt affect any. The help menu says that if you choose move project and events it will move the projects and delete them from the hard drive. Im working on a video project and am using the macs at my university. To save space on your computers hard disk, you can move video in your event library to an external hard disk connected to your computer. Apr 24, 2020 find the imovie events and imovie projects folders and drag them to the trash. To move an imovie project to external drive, hold down the command key as you drag the project to the connected hard drive and then choose move project or move project and events. Saving an unfinished imovie project for completion later. My latest imovie project opens with edits and various effects visibly in place. How to move imovie library to external hard drive folder. How to transfer imovie 09 projects apple community. Best imovie file transfer to transfer imovie project from. With this, you can have the option of having the finished imovie project saved to external usb drive with a large capacity, a network drive or external firewire drive.
These project folders are where imovie would save everything associated with a project. A new event will be added to the list and an imovie events folder will be created on the root of your save location. Top 5 different ways for saving imovie projects finished. The second way to save an unfinished imovie project is to a removable drive. Tips for moving imovie project to another macpc or external. The new macbooks dont have a firewire port fail, so i. How to save imovie projects to an external hard drive youtube. May 20, 2009 connect your external drive it must be properly formatted. So, when your improject is done, export using qt, h264. In imovie, you can use the share menu and save the video in. Move imovie files around to save space on your mac os x. The external storage limitations in imovie 09 as i see them. Saving imovie project to an external hard drive mews news. The third way of saving finished imovie project will be a bit tedious but it will cost you nothing for being patient enough.
Desktop is a good place to make your file easy to find. Select your external drive in the finder, then choose file get info. You can store clips and projects on your internal drive, or a secondary or external drive. The imovie project folder is just the container for all your video and audio edits. The smart way to move imovie projects to external disks. In this case, i would drag the entire folder named test thumbdrive to the thumbdrive. Import imovie project from another macbook macrumors forums. When i click on save to it wont give me a choice it always defaults to the mac pro internal harddrive. Heres how manually delete imovie projects and events stored on an external drive. Unable to export project from imovie january 2008 forums. Saving in imovie 09 is very different from previous versions. Copy imovie projects and events to an external drive youtube.
This will be good in case you suspect that the next time you return to continue working on the files, it will not be on the same computer system. Now you have transferred the imovie file from mac to usb or external drive, and then you can hook up the disk to another mac or pc to view or edit the project. I have loaded some camcorder cassette tapes into imovie and have tried to move the video projects to a back up disk to free up space on my hard drive. You can also send a project from your iphone or ipad to your mac for finishing. The external drive icon should appear in both the project and event libraries. Connect an external display to your iphone or ipad and choose to mirror the imovie interface or display your video fullscreen while you edit share with friends and family send videos with mail and messages save to your photo library or share to youtube in 4k or 1080p60 save videos and imovie project files to icloud drive. If you disconnect the external drive containing the library, imovie opens to a new, empty library created in the movies folder on your mac. If you used any transition effects in your older imovie project, imovie 09 replaces them all with generic crossfade dissolves.
You can also easily remove and archive projects and events. You can change the name of your event within the event library panel. Mar 18, 2020 when your external drive is connected to your mac, the library you moved to the external drive opens automatically in imovie. If it is the former, then it is simply right clicking on the project and. Dec 14, 2017 so the best thing to do is to create or move imovie project to an external drive.
To move existing eventsprojects to an external drive, plug in the external and open imovie. Then, saving the imovie library in your external hard drive. Jul 05, 2014 save projects to external drive in imovie 10. Copy or move events to an external hard disk, imovie help. How to free up space used by imovie files macworld. If you really, truly want to go to all this trouble, you can now start over again, repairing and reconstructing the movie, restoring the elements that got lost during the import process. I have imovie 09 and when i try to input my new video project which is a big. Top 10 common imovie problems and solutions for mac users. You might do this, for example, to create a duplicate copy of your entire video. On your mac pro, manually drag the project file to your movies imovie projects folder. Now you can drag and drop your events onto your external drive by dragging the icons in the event source list in imovie onto the icon for your hard disk in the event source list. I have several of these, some of which date back to 2004.
Look in the movies imovie projects folder and manually drag your project file to the external drive. If you want to back up your work into an external hard drive, you should move your project from your mac computer into an external hard drive. Connect that hdd via usb to that tiny box and it will display a bit like itunes all content, not only your videos, but folders of photos or music. Step 1 connect your external hard drive or flash drive. Trying to export a project to my external hard drive to save it. Like lack of computer space, corrupted project, or wrong export file name. Cant reopen imovie file from external hd macrumors forums. Connect your external hard drive to the workstation 2. So you can store your videos on your mac or an external hard drive. Each project creates two folders with information stored in them. If you plan on moving imovie files around, be careful with those project files. Transferring videos from onedrive to imovie on iphone is. How to copy or move imovie projects to an external hard disk. To save space on your mac, you can move your imovie library to an external hard drive.
For audio and images, simply drag and drop your files into the project panel from a finder window. To move a project, hold down the command key on your keyboard and drag the project you want to move to the desired external hard drive within imovie. Moving a movie project to an external hard drive not a network drive or thumb drive mostly works well, with the caveat that movies imported through iphoto will not be embedded as part of the project though external audio files will. It also offers many different templates for your trailers and movies. When your external drive is connected to your mac, the library you moved to the external drive opens automatically in imovie. Learn how to move an imovie 09 project from the main hard drive to an external or another partition. From memory, imovie 09 doesnt care if you move the events or projects around on. To save you that trouble, im reposting the steps here. I did a late night edit last night, but when i opened imovie today the project was missing from the. I have imovie 09 and when i try to input my new video project which is a big project it wont let me select my external bigger drive. Update imovie projects and events on a mac apple support.
This video will show how you can backup your imovie projects and events to an external drive. Saving your imovie projects to a key drive teaching with. To be able to use your video outside of imovie you need to export it. How to format an external hard drive and move imovie 09 projects from one computer to another computer with the same version of imovie. Cant reopen imovie file from external hd macrumors. To do that, first make a folder named as imovie projects in your external hard drive. Step 1connect your external hard drive or flash drive. Sep 16, 2009 the external storage limitations in imovie 09 as i see them. Since imovie doesnt have a setting to set a folder inside the drive and stores things at the root of an external drive, you can use folders to segregate projects quite nicely. The imovie event folder contains every video, photograph, and music contained in your. You can then move clips, events, and projects between libraries. Eject the external drive from mba and plug it into your mac pro.
Click, hold, and drag the imovie events folder to your thumbdrive. When you open imovie, just right click on the name of the external drive and make a new folder. If you are starting a brand new movie, skip to step 2 on the following page. Copying or moving a project to an external hard disk. Item 2 the using imovie 11 with tech bar external storage. Find the imovie events and imovie projects folders and drag them to the trash.
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