imovie

I'd found a lot of info on the net about using symlinks to allow iMovie to see network disks, but this always seemed like too much of an effort.

So this blog post was a real nice find.

Short form - you just need to set a default:

defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true

During a disk tidy I moved a whole load of iMovie Events from one disk to another (from within iMovie). This worked fine.

However - I had some external media (mp3 file, couple of stills) which I'd just dragged in from the Downloads folder - and having moved these I found that iMovie no longer could find them (yellow warning triangle on the audio media and black video where the stills were used).

To reattach these takes a little fiddling.

The information is in the imovie project file in the file called Project. This is a binary plist file.