saving projects

hey guys I don't own a mac but my school provides plenty of macs on campus for students to edit videos and other things. The problem is once the computer labs close I cannot save my unfinished work and continue working on it the next day and even if i could save my work there is no guarantee I will be able to use the same computer the next day. I was wondering if there was a way to save my unfinished videos to a usb drive without having to finalize the project then re- capture the work and start over again the next day. It is very frustrating and messes up the sound editing and makes it difficult to edit anything I've done on previous days .

Yes, I think so (provided this isn't against the rules of your class or school).

You should be able to copy the iMovie project file (which would be located in (user)/Movies/iMovie Projects) along with your footage which is in (user)/Movies/iMovie Events to a thumb drive (of sufficient size of course), then put those things back in their respective places on another machine that's running the same version of iMovie (BEFORE you start up iMovie). The thumbnails will have to be reconstructed (automatic when you select the project) but you should then be back where you were.

I haven't tested this, mind you, but in theory it should work.

When you plug in an external drive, it's icon should appear in iMovie's Project and Events Libraries. From within the Project Library, drag and drop your Project onto the icon. You'll be asked whether you want to transfer the associated Events. Choose Yes if you want to work on your Project on another computer.

You may be able to just double click on the Project on the external drive and get it to load, but I haven't tried it.