Convert iPhoto movies to thumbnails

I'm new to iMovie, and unprompted it asked me if I wanted to convert the movies to iMovie thumbnails. Now I've got some new movies and can't figure out how to prompt an additional conversion. I'm completely stumped. Anyone out there with any ideas?

Interestingly enough, the screen recording programs I have tried so far will not record the screen when a .dir movie is playing. You just get a black screen. I haven’t tried Camtasia, though. Maybe it will be the magic bullet.
Thanks for the response.
From: jchunick [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:34 PM
To: Dewey Parker
Subject: Convert .dir movies to video?
make the .dir full screen and use a screen recording program like camtasia or an open source/free equivalent.

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