Imovie to aperture export

Hi,
I'm struggling with creating a multimedia slide show in aperture. Of course it's possible to import HD videos into aperture, but how can I import movies that I optimized in imovie before? The only way so far I found is to work on every scene in imovie, save it individually as an imovie project and export it into .mov to then open that one in Aperture - scene by scene.
I didn't find a way to create an imovie project and drag and drop individual scenes or clips to aperture.
Any idea anybody?

Hi, and welcome to the Forums.
First, just in case there's another option for recovery, do you happen to know how the pictures we're accidentally lost?
As for recovering them from iMovie/iDVD:
You can download the free open source (and useful) VLC Media Player. www.videolan.org/vlc
Below is a link to a tutorial (scroll down past the Windows portion) to show you how to grab a frame from your .mov file used to create your DVD. The quality of the photo frame captured may likely be less than the quality of the original photo from your camera, but it's better than nothing and will probably still look fine when used in other slide shows, screen savers, on iDevices, etc.
http://www.tvcrit.com/tvcrit3/framegrab/VLC9/

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