Imovie 11 - long delay to startup with archived video on external HD

I have a 2009 MB Pro and using imovie 11. I just finished archiving my family videos on a 2 TB external HD d2 quadra Lacie and a 1 TB external HD quadra la cie drive that i daisychain via firewire. the 2 TB drive is 95% full and the 1 TB drive is 20% full.
When i start up Imovie, i have to wait 10-15 minutes for everything to load and be usable. I have a spinning beach ball in the meantime.
Is there a fix for this? Should i move some of the files on the 2TB drive to the 1 TB drive?
any other way to make imovie more responsive?
thanks
Ross

Hi
Two things
• How are the external hard disks formatted - MUST be Mac OS Extended (hfs) for VIDEO - UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things - BUT NOT for Video whatever program is used iMovie, FinalCut or iDVD.
• Grade of filling - Never go under 10 - 20% (at least my minimum is 25Gb - I rather have more - much more) as this is slowing down performances and is an eventually risky way to work - usually fatal break-downs occurs when disks fills up - My experience !.
Yours Bengt W

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