Loading "iPhoto Videos" takes forever

When I started iMovie '11 for the first time, it spent 12 hours or so finding the videos in my iPhoto library and then generating the thumbnails. I have a hundred or so .AVIs in there shot with my Canon ELPH. When I quit iMovie or just navigate away from the event "iPhoto Videos" and then back, it again takes hours for the video thumbnails to display. Once they are displayed, I can zip through them (though there is no sound when I scrub through - not sure if this is a bug or not). But in any case, it takes a long time (hours) to load these up every time. Am I doing something wrong?

In general, it may take a long time to generate iPhoto movie thumbnails the first time you run it. Let it run overnight or when you will not be at the computer. After that, when it offers to create iPhoto thumbnails, it should take a couple of seconds as it checks for any recently added movies. It should spend no time creating thumbnails for movies it has already processed.
If iMovie is spending a lot of time generating thumbnails for iPhoto movies that have already been processed, you need to explore whether the thumbnails are getting stored properly after they are finished. Typically, this could be either a permissions problem (most likely) or a failing hard drive (more rare.) My first step would be to repair permissions using disk utility.

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