IMovie locks up on loading

Hi All
I have iMovie 11 and everytime I load it, it locks up whilst loading movies from iphoto. I have to force quite and when I reload again it asks about excluding an avi file in iphoto library. I exclude but then the same happens again.
Is there anyway of stopping it doing this. I have loads of movies from an old camera whcih probably got imported and would take an age to find them all
Thanks
Glenn

Hi again Glenn,
A quick way to find all your avi clips in iPhoto is to click on Events in the iPhoto Library, then in the bottom left corner use Search. In the Search box, type .avi or .AVI - this should bring up all the avi files in your iPhoto Library, showing a thumbnail for each video.
You can also create a Smart Album in iPhoto that will bring together all your movies into one album in the Library. From iPhoto's menu select File > New Smart Album, then adjust the settings to show as below:
By a process of elimination you may be able to track down any problem files in this Smart Album. Of course, the Search field I mentioned above will allow you to isolate just the avi files. Note that whenever you add a new video clip to iPhoto it will automatically appear in the Smart Album (a brilliant feature in iPhoto).
Anyway, first things first - let us know what the Format and FPS is for one of the avi clips (as I asked in my first post here).
John

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