Oct 21, 2019 Sharing your movie on Mac. You can share or export your iMovie project from a couple of convenient spots. On the main Projects screen, click the More button, put your cursor over Share Project, and pick your preferred option. On your Project editing screen, click the Share button on the top right of. . Send any project to your Mac via AirDrop or iCloud Drive to finish editing with iMovie or Final Cut Pro X. Connect an external display to your iPhone or iPad and choose to mirror the iMovie interface or display your video full-screen while you edit. Share with friends and family. Send videos with Mail and Messages. I don't use iCloud Drive, but my understanding is that iCloud drive does not support MAC iMovie library. If I am wrong perhaps someone else will chime in. However, you can test this for yourself. Creat a new library and make a couple of test projects in it. Then try to move the library to iCloud and access it from multiple Macs.- Rich.
by Jenefey AaronUpdated on 2020-04-13 / Update for OS X
I was working on a project on my Air when on vacation and now can't move it back to my MacPro at home. 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. Perhaps I'm missing something simple as I haven't used imovie much”
Editing movies with Apple's iMovie is fabulous, except that the projects and events fill up your disk. You may want to transfer the project file to external drive or to another computer but do not want to lose the editing jobs. In this article you'll learn how to copy iMovie projects from Mac to another Mac, or from Mac to an external drive so you can still work on the project.
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Moving or copying projects to another HD is useful if you want to work on a project using another computer that has iMovie installed, or if you want to free up space on your computer's hard disk.
To copy or move an iMovie project to a hard drive:
- Connect an external hard drive to your Mac. An icon for the hard disk appears in the Event Library.
- If your hard drive has a yellow exclamation point, it is formatted for Windows and you'll need to reformat it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
- In the Project Library, please select the project you want to copy or move.
To copy the project, drag it to the attached hard drive. Choose 'Copy project' or 'Copy project and Events'. If you choose 'Copy project', none of the project's source video and other media is copied to the disk. This means that when you want to view or further edit the project in its new location, the external drive must be connected to the computer the project was copied from.
Imovie Project File Location
If you choose 'Copy projects and Events', then the source video and media info are copied to the new location, so you can view and edit the project in its new location without being connected to the computer it has been copied from.
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'.
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.
Imovie Project Ideas
If you already exported your iMovie file to a movie and want to transfer the movies to an iPhone, iPad or iPod, I recommend you a handy transfer tool- Tenorshare iCareFone, which provides an easy way to transfer data between computer and iOS devices.
With Tenorshare iCareFone, you can transfer music, videos, contacts, etc. freely and in batch without iTunes restrictions.
Read More: How to Sync Videos from Computers to iPhone
Microsoft autoupdate for mac latest version. An iMovie library holds all the media and data used to make movies in iMovie. If your iMovie library is large and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, you can move your iMovie library to an external drive.
Before you move an iMovie library, it's a good idea to back up your Mac.
Moving your library to an external hard drive doesn’t affect any iMovie Theater content you have moved to iCloud. Use access on mac.
Prepare your drive
You can store your library on an external storage device such as a USB Thunderbolt drive formatted as APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Apple doesn’t recommend storing iMovie libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives shared on a network.
You can’t store your library on an external drive or other disc used for Time Machine back-ups.
Move a library to an external storage device
- Quit iMovie.
- Select your external drive in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info.
- If the information in Sharing & Permissions isn’t visible, click the triangle , then make sure the 'Ignore ownership on this volume' checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click the lock icon to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, and then select the checkbox.
- Click your desktop to make sure that you’re in the Finder, then choose Go > Home from the menu bar at the top of your screen.
- Open the Movies folder, then drag the file named iMovie Library to your external hard drive.
- When the library file is finished copying to your external drive, double-click the library file on the external drive to open it in iMovie. If an alert appears asking you to give iMovie access to a removable volume, click OK.
If you clicked Don't Allow, in the Finder choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Security and Privacy, then click Privacy. Click Files and Folders in the sidebar, then select 'Removable Volumes' under iMovie. - Make sure the library you moved contains all your media, then drag the original file from your Movies folder on your Mac to the Trash.
Transfer Imovie Project
If you disconnect the external drive
When your external drive is connected to your Mac, the library you moved to the external drive opens automatically in iMovie. If you disconnect the external drive containing the library, iMovie opens to a new, empty library created in the Movies folder on your Mac. iMovie automatically saves any projects you create and media you import in the new library.
If you want to open the library you moved to an external drive, you can open it after you reconnect the external drive. You can then move clips, events and projects between libraries.