Collaborating in imovie projects

Thanks!

Any reason why theres no collaborate option when I try to share?

-Liz

A project in editable form cannot exist independently but must reside in an iMovie library. To transfer the project to someone else one must transfer the iMovie library that contains the project. For this purpose it often is helpful to create a new library and populate it with the one project. Or, if you prefer, you can simply transfer the entire original library. In your case, possibly the library has only one project in it, so the second option might be fine.

So, let's say you have an iMovie library located on Mac #1, that has an iMovie project in it that you want to transfer to Mac #2. Create a new library on Mac #1, transfer the project to it, and then transfer the new library containing the project to an external drive or thumb drive that is plugged into Mac #1. (Or, as mentioned above you can skip creating a new library and instead transfer the original library.) The external drive, or thumb drive, must be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS. Then you physically transfer the external drive or thumb drive containing the library and project from Mac #1 to Mac #2. Both computers must be Macs. To edit the project Mac #2 must be running the exact same version of iMovie that was used to create the project.

Before transferring (or copying) the library or project, do the following procedures. On Mac #1, open iMovie and click on the library's name in the side bar, and do an Edit/Consolidate Library Media. Then go to the project browser and select the project and do an Edit/Consolidate Project Media. This is to make sure that you carry over to Mac #2 all of the media used in the project.

The above procedure is a bit archaic, but unfortunately an iMovie library cannot be stored in the Cloud, so using the Cloud is not an option.

Just be sure that both Macs are using the same iMovie version.

ADDENDUM: As a somewhat limited workaround, you can share out the project as a movie file, and then transfer the Movie file by email or AirDro[ from one Mac to another, where you can import it into a new iMovie project, do some lmited editing, and then share it out and transfer the shared Movie back to the original Mac.

-- Rich

Yes, I hadn't thought of saving the library as a .zip file and transferring it that way. After uploading it from Mac I think that you would need to download it on Mac 2.

If you have time, please post back with the procedure that you followed and the results that you got. It might help others who want to collaborate in editing an iMovie project.

-- Rich

If you have any more of this to do in the future you may be interested in a video produced by Ripple Training who are well known for training videos for Final Cut Pro. They explain a file transfer process from Blip

I should say that I do not know how well this works for transferring iMovie Libraries but it appears from Ripple Training to be very successful in transferring FCP Libraries.

You may want to experiment to see if it fits your needs for iMovie.

Start at the 3 min 30 second point.

https://www.rippletraining.com/blog/final-cut-pro-x/send-files-of-any-sizehttps://blip.net

and this is link to blip https://blip.net

Thanks for the comprehensive post. I hope that it works.

-- Rich

Thanks for posting that. Will be interested in learning how well it worked.

— Rich

I believe that with the older computers there is no collaboration option when sharing an iMovie zip file library.

-- Rich