IMovie ´11 - generating miniature pictures jam

I just upgraded to iMovie ´11 and at launch the program is supposedly generating miniature pictures but nothing is happening. In case of it being a bit slow I let i run through the night but next morning nothing had happened. I trashed the preference file, that didn´t help. I tried to launch iMovie from another user, and then works fine (with no films available of course).
So, what would be my next step? Any help is appreciated!

I have a similar issue ( https://discussions.apple.com/message/16578013#16578013 ) is it the process of generating the miniature previews from your iPhoto movies? If that is the case, create a new event and import the movies directly into imovie without using iPhoto ( you can even drag and drop them from iphoto ,(how dumb is that???) then it at least let you work... Hope this helps. Still Apple would need to get this fixed as it is an issue with lots of users...

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