IMovie Freezes before generating thumbs

After loading my video clips iMovie freezes when rendering the thumbnails. I can work around it by force quit and restarting iMovie but this is annoying. Any suggestions?

I'm currently trying to import a movie into iMovie which is something like an hour and a half or 2 hours long. It's been generating thumbnails for about 3 hours and looks to be less than half done. The time remaining says 198 minutes, but it said 230 minutes an hour ago. ***?
It's not like I'm running this on a G3 or something. How long could it possibly take? At this rate it's going to be 6+ hours...

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