IMovie 09 takes forever to refresh folders - unusable!

I have a MacPro 8-core with 32GB RAM, 3 x 1TB Seagate drives in Raid 0, with a eSata external tower with 4 x 1TB Seagate drives in Raid5. I'm running Leopard 10.5.8.
Using iMovie 09, I imported all of the digital video tapes collected over the past 6 years. My iMovie Events folder on my external eSata tower now contains about 1.2TB of imported movies. My iMovie Events folder on internal Raid, which contains only the last 2 years of movies, is about 730GB.
The problem that I'm having is that iMovie 09 takes almost 10 minutes to load while it refreshes the Event Library. Each time that I move to view a different event folder in the Event Library, I get the spinning ball and it takes 3-6 minutes before iMovie responds to keyboard import. Each time I click on a different year subfolder in the event library, the delay happens again. It's making iMovie virtually unusable. If I turn off my external eSata tower and restart iMovie, the responsiveness improves because the larger events folder is not available to iMovie.
It seems that iMovie is not designed to handle a large events folder event even on a super fast MacPro.
Any suggests to get iMovie to be more responsive? Or, have I outgrown iMovie's capabilities?
Thanks.
Bud James

OK, I have a bit more data, and some success!
Using Handbrake I converted the original mov files to mpeg-4 files using the ffmpeg codec rather than the H.264, then imported them as events in iMovie. This time they imported quickly, were responsive when edited, and shared to iDVD quickly, completing in under an hour.
So it would seem that it is the H.264 format that does not play well with iMovie. Still curious if anyone has any suggestions/explanations as to why that may be, but at least for now the problem is resolved.

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