iMovie - import video on one mac, edit on another

[hibbers]

I'll be doing my first project in iMovie this weekend; I'm borrowing a Sony Handycam to film a school play.

Because my Macbook doesn't have a firewire port, I'm planning to use my friend's iMac to import the footage onto my external hard drive (ie select the hard drive from the pop-up menu on the import sheet as recommended here - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1026). Once the footage is on my external hard drive will I have to do the editing on the iMac, or can I edit it in my Macbook? The 2nd option is preferable as I can then do the editing at home instead of at my friend's place. If that's possible, how do I import it into the macbook? And also, my friend's iMac has iMovie '08, I have '09 - does that matter?

thanks in advance!
Kate

 

[arjen92]

You can just import the movie files from the hard disk. I do not know whether it will recognize everything as it was in iMovie of your friend (like thumbnails and such), but you can import the actual files with no problems.

 

[hibbers]

Got it working, thanks! very straightforward.