Importing from a hard drive

Question

1) I downloaded some movie clips directly from my camera's memory card - the rest I downloaded from an Epson photo storage device. The ones directly downloaded from the camera can be imported into iMovie all at once, but those that came off of the Epson device - on to my hard drive - seem to be able to be imported only one at a time (and I have many) ... is there a way around this so that I can import them all at once (right now when I select a range - the Import button is greyed out)?
2) When I did import the clips (from the camera) into iMovie - they came into a project I had open. I removed them, but it changed the folder date from 2007 to 2008 - how can I change it back to 2007 and then create a 2008 ... which shouldn't it have done that automatically?
3) What is the difference between an Event and a Project?
4) When I import a movie into iMovie (or a photo into iPhoto) is it creating another copy of it on disk? I asked this of support - and was told "No." But when I look at the size of the related library - it's very large ... so something must copied there.
I am using iMovie08 ... sorry for more than one question per post, but ... THANKS!

Answer 1

Open iMovie and under file select Import Movies,, a window will open with a few options for importing from various places, if you card is inserted in you Epson or you camera is connected with the card installed you should be able to import the file using this manner. You will notice you can select where you want the movies saved and as an existing event or to create new event. You should select create new event, name it what you want and then select if you havent already the clips you want associated with that title and the format you want them imported, I always use full or the best possible resolution for the camera used.
An event is the title to a clip or group of clips associated as you title it with an event, such as "trip to hong kong" would contain all your clips from your trip and as you edit and move the clips into a project that will be uploaded to the web or transfered to iDVD or something it is saved as a project.