iMovie Storage and Editing Across Two Devices

[SPJones]

Hi folks. I’m newish to using iMovie and have some videos I’d like to edit. However, my 2020 MacBook Air only has 256GB internal storage. The videos I have total around 500GB.

At present, they are stored on an old 2013 iMac running Catalina I use for storage and a couple of other basic things.

I'd like to use iMovie on my MacBook Air to edit the videos but still store them on the iMac. Is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks!

 

[IJustWannaTalk]

Is buying an external hard drive not possible?

As iMovie usually copies the imported footage into its own folder, you'd be limited by networking speeds, would could really slow down any editing process.
That being said, moving and symbolically linking the Movie folder would likely do the trick, but I wouldn't recommend it from your iMac, unless your networking speed is pretty fast.