Can't generate thumnails from iPhoto videos in iMovie 11

I opened iMovie 11 a little while ago and it asked if I wanted to generate thumnails Now or Later from the videos in iPhoto. I clicked on the "Later" button. I have been using iMovie for at least 5 years and have always clicked on the Now button as far as I can remember.
But I had just remembered that I wanted to change the file names of my new videos in Aperture before generating the thumnails in iMovie, so I did that. But when I went back to iMovie, there was no dialog box asking me if I wanted to generate the thumnails from the new videos or not. I have closed iMovie, rebooted, and still there is no dialog box. I can't find the option on the menu to generate the thumbnails.
The videos are not gone, they still appear in both iPhoto and Aperture, but I want to edit them in iMovie. I'm hoping there's a simple solution.
Travis

Ok I solved it myself. I just made a 2 second video and imported it to Aperture, then when I opened iMovie again, it loaded the 2 second clip as well as all the previous new videos that it won't load before.

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