Understanding iMovie Libraries and Events - An in-depth look at where your video files really are!

This tutorial guides you through the use of Libraries and Events within iMovie. You'll see different examples of how to create multiple libraries and move your video footage to external hard drives if you run out of space and a basic understanding of how the file structure works using Apple iMovie.
Video files take up a lot of space and can cause you to run out of room on your Mac, so by creating and organizing your iMovie Libraries, you can copy to an external hard drive to free up space. But most importantly, you know where your files actually live!

00:00 | Intro & Welcome to iMovie!
01:00 | Default location of iMovie Libraries
02:02 | External Hard Drive Recommendations
03:21 | Why use multiple Libraries?
05:22 | How to create a new iMovie Library
06:36 | Move iMovie Library to external hard drive to free up space
08:10 | Package Contents of iMovie files
10:58 | What are Render Files?

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Thanks for a great video! Easy to understand and organized presentation without being to long! Helped me a lot!

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This is so helpful. IMovie hurts my brain but I think I’m starting to figure it all out. Your explanations are magnificent.

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Seriously, your videos are always SO helpful! Thank you!

[robcoutts]

Excellent tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for!

[annebeaudoin]

This is great! What a clear and practical video! I haven't started yet with iMovie (I'm about to buy my new iMac) and this video makes things a lot clearer to me. Thank you very much!

[tyty]

Thank you for this video. Very well explanation. Very useful. Thank you.

[gjonesii]

Joel I appreciate you shedding some light on the confusing file handling in iMovie. Thanks to your video, I am beginning to understand it.

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Very helpful video. Great explanations.

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Fantastic educational video on the matter. I truly appreciate the way you teach.

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I take back previous comment! Restarted my Mac and all the projects are working and intact! Best video ever THANK YOU 🤩

[bobdelellis]

Awesome video. This was super helpful. Thank you, Joel. 👍

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Thank you so much. Defiantly subscribed.

[joehopper]

Excellent. Great overview of iMovie files and how best to handle them when moving to a remote SSD and cleaning up your hard drive.

[AncestryAimee]

Thanks for a clear explanation and help!

[davidreadbikes]

Thanks Joel, - this was really helpful. Deleting my render files really helped speed up my editing.

[KarinJoan]

This was SUCH a good tutorial!! You are an awesome teacher. Funny too😄😄👍 THANKS A LOT!! 🤗

[stevensifa]

Awesome video! Very informative and helpful for me because my Mac is running slow and lagging so I need to move my library onto an external hard drive.

[MuddyDuck...]

Thanks for this really helpful video Joel 👍
It looks like iMovie has improved file management a lot from the early days, when I last tried it out.
Anyway I now have a few videos to create from a number of recent hikes.
From what you say I am probably best off creating a Library for the whole trail, then creating an Event for each section hike?
I have already seen your helpful video on Managing Clips. But the missing bit of the jigsaw now is to do with additional content - photos, graphics, music, voice etc. Can these be copied off the same external SSD into the Library file? Hope that question makes sense... Many thanks