Why is iMovie loading slowly?

I have a terabyte external drive with 8 events on it, and when iMovie opens, the app doesn't respond for about 30 minutes, it just has a spinning icon in the middle that stays in the middle of my screen even if i move iMovie away. PLEASE HELP!!!
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I have similar problem. In my case opening iMovie is slow and also starting full screen preview of projects. No problems with viewing events.
iM09 was snappy when I had few short projects, but became very slow when I started first long one (~1.5H). I'm sure that there is nothing wrong with that particular project. When I removed it everything turned back to normal. Then created a new long project without any transitions, titles etc, just pure DV footage even without cuts, and thing became slow again. I keep everything on internal drive.

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