I have a question involving using my photos from an external drive on imovie, ipad, & iphone. Here's the background: my macbook hard drive was full with most of the space used by photos. Using the tips I found here and other sites, I bought an external hard drive and moved the photos there and set it up as my default drive for iphoto. This works fine; it accepts new photos, loads quickly, and opened up a lot of free space.
The main question I have is to find a way to get to specific albums where I can use them to make a movie. When I open imovie and I try to get the pictures, videos, it can't find them in the iphoto library of the hard drive and I don't see a way to direct it there. Similarly, before moving my photos, our ipad and iphones would include photos from the iphoto selection on the hard drive. Now that I've got external hard drive and wiped the hard drive empty, it is unable to find the photos and it's a bit of an inconvenience that I'd like to fix.
Is there a way that imovie can pull up photos from the external hard drive? If not, do I have to have the pictures and videos I want to use moved to the hard drive? If it is the latter, can someone tell me how I can select and then move the album(s) over? Thanks.
The main question I have is to find a way to get to specific albums where I can use them to make a movie. When I open imovie and I try to get the pictures, videos, it can't find them in the iphoto library of the hard drive and I don't see a way to direct it there. Similarly, before moving my photos, our ipad and iphones would include photos from the iphoto selection on the hard drive. Now that I've got external hard drive and wiped the hard drive empty, it is unable to find the photos and it's a bit of an inconvenience that I'd like to fix.
Is there a way that imovie can pull up photos from the external hard drive? If not, do I have to have the pictures and videos I want to use moved to the hard drive? If it is the latter, can someone tell me how I can select and then move the album(s) over? Thanks.