How to update stills in iMovie?

Hi!
I finished my video in iMovie'09 based on still photographs.
After reviewing the results, I decided to retouch some of the photographs.
I opened iMovie, right clicked each photo, selected "Reveal in Finder" and updated the photo using Photoshop.
However, iMovie is not updating the photos after I change them.
If I select a photo in iMovie and click the "Reveal in finder", in Finder I see it changed, but not in iMovie. I even tried to export the movie to see if it would use the updated stills, but it did not.
How can I update my movie without having to recreate the entire sequence or change each photo individually?
Thanks in advance

I did some research into this and I don't have good news for you. When you create a new project in iMovie it creates a project file inside the Movies/iMovie Projects folder inside your home directory. This project file is actually a package file which you can look into if you right-click it and choose Show Package Contents.
What I found is that when you add a photo to your project, iMovie creates a QuickTime movie file inside this package and adds the photo to it. It then refers to this QuickTime movie from then on. I tried deleting this QuickTime movie from the package to see if iMovie would recreate it from the original photo files. But it doesn't. In fact in my test project of 4 photos, the whole project disappeared from the iMovie Project list after I deleted the QuickTime movie file and then restarted iMovie.
There doesn't seem to be a way to do what you want but I'm ready to be corrected.

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