Is iMovie 9 always so slow?

Hi,
I just would like to know if iMovie 9 is always so slow to start, or if it's just me?
What I mean is that when I launch iMovie, it takes about 5 minutes for it to load videos from iPhoto into the event library. Only after it does that, then I can actually do anything.
Just for info, I have about 3,500 photos plus 60 AVI little movies in my iphoto library. I have plenty of space on my hard drive and my memory is 4 GB.
Thanks!

Why would you want to load all those photos every time?
Is it a work in progress?
Events take up lot of space and time to load especially something with that number of images.
If you have finished with projects and events, move them elsewhere so they don't have to be loaded every time you start iMovie.
I just archived all of my projects and events that I have finished with and now my iMovie starts in seconds.

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