Open your account at, and navigate to where you want to save your video project.If you are saving to a USB drive (or other external drive) instead of to, skip to step 11.In the Projects window, locate your movie, and click on the icon underneath (three dots inside a circle).You’ll be prompted to name your movie if you haven’t already done so. In iMovie, click on the Projects button (top left).Check your desktop you should now see a file with the name DU.imovielibrary.Choose Desktop as the location for your new library, and name this library DU (or other unique name).In iMovie, click File > Open > New Library.

This allows you to open the project on other Macs and continue working on it next time. However, steps are the same whether you use or other cloud storage such as Google Drive, and whether you use a USB drive or other physical storage such as a portable hard drive.Ĭreate your movie as usual. Follow the steps below to save a copy of your project.

Instructions were written based on the assumption that the project is being saved to OR a USB drive. Although iMovie makes it easy for beginners to create a movie, saving a copy of the project to keep with you or open on a different computer isn’t exactly intuitive. This tutorial is specific to using iMovie on a computer, and does not apply to iMovie for iPhone or iPad.

Imovie on computer