IMovie lags when editing video

Hey guys
So I just updated iMovie to iMovie '11 and no I have problems with editing videos. I had many clips and I imported them into the program and the whole thing was about 45 minutes long. I started editing and everything was absolutely fine, no problems at all, although it was that long. Now the movie is only 8(!!!) minutes long and now iMovie started lagging. I can still watch the video alright, but when I try to edit, I have to wait 3 secs till the curser moves and it also sometimes turns into the buisy sign ...
I dunno what to do, I need to get the video done by today so pleeeeeease help me!
Thanks!
Yana

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