All youll need is an external hard drive plugged in to your mac before continuing. Make sure the after import analyze for box is unchecked. Can i work on an imovie project from an external harddrive. To move existing eventsprojects to an external drive, plug in the external and open imovie. Tips for moving imovie project to another macpc or external drive i was working on a project on my air when on vacation and now cant move it back to my macpro at home. Tap the projects tab and select the project you want to move. Copy imovie projects and events to an external drive youtube. Here we will show you steps to copy or move a project to an external hard disk or usb flash drive. To move existing events projects to an external drive, plug in the external and open imovie. Note make sure the connected external hard disk is in fat32 file format.
In the project library, please select the project you want to copy or move. I exported imovie projects into my user account and from there, dragged the saved projects into an external hard drive and then deleted the imovie projects from my user account. Moving your library to an external hard drive doesnt affect any. My macbook only has a 250gb hard drive, and i need access to more than 250gb worth of files in my dropbox on a regular basis, so i keep it on a. If its not selected, click the lock icon to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, and then select the checkbox. However, whenever i tried opening them, they wouldnt open. If your hard drive has a yellow exclamation point, it is formatted for windows and youll need to reformat it as mac os extended journaled.
To do this, open imovie, and click viewevents by volume. I have tried the obvious and can get it to my desktop but the project is always greyed out when i try to import it. How to move an imovie project from your iphone or ipad to. Choose a save location, such as your external hard drive. To copy the project, drag it to the attached hard drive. Any projects using clips from the moved events refer to the clips at their new location. Import external videos into imovie for ipad and iphone. Thankfully, imovie 11 has the option to move projects and events between hard drives, and although its not particularly well documented, its quite simple to do. Copy or move events to an external hard disk, imovie help. How to copy or move an imovie project to another library howchoo. This video will show how you can backup your imovie projects and events to an external drive. This will move it to the external drive, while updating the links in the project file.
This tutorial will show you how to backup and save your imovie project to external storage a flash drive, a hard drive, mc storage space. Select your event for add to existing event or select create new event if you want to save your footage to a new event. Step 1connect your external hard drive or flash drive. Select your external drive in the finder, then choose file get info. Just drag eventsprojects and drop them on the icon. However, when i needed to retrieve these projects, i simply turned on my hard drive and clicked on them to open. How to copy or move imovie projects to an external hard disk. A proper way to move imovie projects into an external hard drive to. This allows you to edit off of the external drive instead of taking up all the space on your internal drive. This means that the hard disk to which you have moved the events must be. This video shows how to move your imovie project to an external hard drive. A proper way to move imovie project into an external hard drive to save space with imovie v. This will show you all the properly formatted external drives in the event list.
Step 1 connect your external hard drive or flash drive. You can drag and drop the icon for an event onto the icon in the event list for the hard drive. How to move mac imovie library to dropbox or an external hard. Now you need to create a new library on your external drive. Move your imovie events and projects to an external drive.
Backing up project to mc storage from a media commons imac. Select the share button at the bottom of the screen. This allows you to edit off of the external drive instead of. From here, you have a few different options on how to get your project over to imovie. The smart way to move imovie projects to external disks. How to move an imovie project from your iphone or ipad to your mac. Movie files eat up disk space, but try to manage your imovie 11 projects by dragging things onto an external drive, youll break it.
When importing video into imovie use the save import dialogue box and navigate to your external. Saving an imovie project to and external hard drive lacie. An icon for the hard disk appears in the event library. The external drive icon should appear in both the project and event libraries.
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