Imovie freeze on generating thumbnail for iphoto videos

When I open imovie, there is a message that says "do you want to generate iphoto video thumbmails?" now or later.  As I have iphoto videos missing in imovie, i press on now.  It then says that a certain movie is missing and then freezes and I cannot quit imovie.

Hi there,
I would recommend trying the troubleshooting steps described in the article below.
iMovie: How to troubleshoot "Application Unexpectedly Quit" messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3143
-Griff W.

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