Saving your iMovie11 to a Flash Drive or External

Hard Drive

iMovie 11 will not only save your movie project and events to a flash drive,
but it will also let you edit and work on your movie right on the flash drive.
That way you can work on it on any of the computers, or you can copy your
movie from one of the lab computers to your flash. I tested the size of the
video project by saving the movie and events to two types of external drives.
Size of project and time it took to save is included.
A. Saved an iMovie to a Memorex USB 2.0, 8 gig flash drive.
The 31 minute, 30 fps Video Project and events took around 9-10 minutes to
move/copy to a flash memory drive formatted MacOS extended Journaled.
All video events and the project took 31 minutes and took up about 2.2 gigs.
A 4 gig flash drive will work fine. An 8 gig is better and offers lots of room.
B. Saved an iMovie to an external hard drive.
The exact same project was saved to an external hard drive also formatted
Mac OS extended journaled took less than 2 minutes to copy/move to the
external hard drive.
If you want to use a flash drive, 4-8 gigs should be enough room for movie
assignments of 3-10 minutes. Flash drives and external hard drives must me
prepared for use with iMovie.

Format your flash drive or external hard drive:

1. Open the Finder

2. Click on ApplicationsUtilitiesDisk Utility app

3. Click on your flash drive or external hard drive in the left column4a.
Click on the Partition Tab

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For a Flash Drive:

4b. In the Volume Scheme

Click on the drop-down and
select 1 Partition
4c. In the Format field, click
on the drop down and select
Mac OS Extended Journaled.
4d. Name your Flash Drive and
4e.Click Apply

For an External Hard Drive with a Mac and a PC partition:

4bExt. In the Volume Scheme Click on the drop-down and select
2 Partitions
4cExt. Click on the top box of the Partition area and in the Format field,
Click on drop-down and select Mac OS Extended Journaled
Click on the bottom box and select NTSF
The Mac will see both partitions and their content, but the PC will only see the
NTSF partition.
4d. Name each of the partitions (just click on the Mac partition and name it, and
click on the NTSF version and name it.)
4e.Click Apply

Save the iMovie project to your Flash or External

Hard Drive
5. Open iMovie and Click on the Project Library Button
7. Click on your project and drag it down to your Mac
OS Extended Journaled Flash drive or external hard
drive.
8. Click on Copy Project and Events. Notice the
project size will show
**You can now work on your
project on your Flash or
External Drive.

2011 Media Services Gloria Hofer 551-1863 or ghofer@scu.edu