I can't see my iPhoto videos in iMovie events library. Help!!!

I just purchased the new MacBook Pro with retnia display. I imported my 2011 and 2012 iphoto files into the pictures folder. When I open the 2012 file and goto imovie I see all my video's. If I reopen iphoto and direct it to 2011, when I open imovie it acts as if there is nothing to display for video. I have recreated the 2011 iphoto file from backup drives and NOTHING seems to work. What could be going on? Is this fixable?

Hi Tom, Thank you for your reply. Please forgive my ignorance. I did try to find the answer here but I am new at this. Could you direct me to that thread please? Yes the external hard drive is used for time machine and I did see something at one time regarding an issue but evidently it didnt sink in or stick. The drive is a g-raid I have had for several years used on a macbook pro but now I have a new imac and fcpx. works fine with all other apps, when the drive came out of the box it said preformatted and just ran with it.

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