Can I Manually Create an iMovie Event Library

When we import movies from our digital camcorder, I like the way iMovie automatically creates event libraries for the year in which the movies were filmed. However, when we bring in analog media (using a converter), it simply imports the movies into the current year; i.e. 2008. I would like to create event libraries for previous years and move the imported movies into those years. I can't find a way to create a 1994 (for example) event library, however. Any ideas?
Thanks...Jim

The trick here is to change the date of your imported analog video to the correct date. Then iMovie will categorize it properly. There are many ways to do this. My favorite is an application called "A Better Finder Attributes".
Karsten's website has a good post on the various options. Here is a link.
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08changeeventdate

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A PhotoBooth movie can be dragged by it's thumbnail image from the bottom of the PhotoBooth window out of PhotoBooth on to the Desktop and then can be dragged into an Event in iMovie's Event Library. Or you can drag it directly into the iMovie Event Library if you do not want a copy on the Desktop
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1760341?start=0&tstart=0
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The new iMovie took a couple of hours to index my iPhoto video clips. That didn't bother me so much as I have 2564 video clips in my iPhoto library.
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