Changing date on original file

After upgrading to imovie 10, I realized that all previous version media, which is stored on an external hard drive, somehow was modified so that the creation date was actually the date the media was imported into the previous version of imovie. I upgraded to imovie 10 with the purchase of a new mac, so the modification to the creation dates may have happened during the migration. Many of the titles in these media clips have the actual creation or record date in the title when you look at them but when you select get info the actual creation date is different, it's the date the media was imported. This causes a husge problem, because when the media is updated into imovie 10 the dates are off and correcting the dates for all media is very time consuming. My question is:
1. Is there a way to automatically convert the dates to the orgional creations dates.
2. Is there a way that I can go into the orgional file in the hard drive and change the creation date to the correct date, as this would be much easier then correcting the media after it's updated in the new imovie version 10. I have tried this under the "get info" screen when looking at the file, however, I see no option that lets the creation date be modified.
Thanks,
Dennis

If you have had a look at your other post,
Why does PSE10 change my file date to today?
you may be able to spot what can have triggered the updating of the catalog. There are too many date types in the exif, some of them are misleading. What is really interesting for a scan? For me (familiy history, genealogy) it's the supposed 'Date taken' or 'CreateDate' to display file chronogically. The file date in the OS is useful for backups.
It's possible that the date digitized has some meaning for you.
If you want to compare the different dates shown by John R Ellis in the Organizer database with those you see in an exif browser (or the properties in the editor, or the information panel in the organizer), you have to note that the 5 types of dates stored in the catalog database are;
-pse:FileDate
-Pse:FileDateOriginal
-xmp:CreateDate
-pse:TagDate
-pse:LastOrganizerModifiedTime
What's important to troubleshoot your problems is to find what operation triggers the updating of the catalog from the files or vice versa.
That can be: Update thumbnail, Write Metadata to files or...

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