Easiest way to import 192 AVI's each into it's own event in iMovie '11?

Hi,
I want to start using our new iMac's iMovie '11 (language not English, hopefully all the terms are correct) as our video library and organizer. I have a bunch of edited and named AVI's (192 exactly), which I would like to *import into 192 separate events in iMovie '11*. I would like to have the AVI file names as event names and naturally keep the correct dates in the process.
Is there an easy way of doing this? The options when importing movies seem to be
"add to an existing event"
"create new event"
I think what I'm *looking for would be a third import option*:
*create separate event from every movie (or clip)*
I can't get this done by dragging from Finder either. I can't drag to the library itself and I have to drag the movies to an existing event. Is there a way around this by some sort of batch import or adjusting settings when I drag AVI's over from Finder? I think I could live with writing new event names, but bringing all the AVI's over one by one seems hard work...
TM

You could either script this via shell script or atleast bulk most of the tedious manual create/move operations.
Since you don't have that many, easiest is just to dump the filenames to a textfile and start from that so you don't have to type any.
ls > clips.txt
Open the file in Excel or a text editor (such as a the free Textwrangler which lets you do stuff in column mode) and create terminal commands. These you can just copy (cmd+c) and then paste into a terminal window and then execute.
mkdir "clipname 1 minus extension"
mkdir "clipname 2 minus extension"
You can also add the move operation
mv "clipname 1" ./"clipname 1 minus extension"
mv "clipname 2" ./"clipname 2 minus extension"
This is done in just a few minutes
HTH

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