Moving clips from imovie 06 to imovie 08...really important!!!!!

i am using imovie 08 to complete media coursework. i needed to speed up some of the clips that would be featured. i did this on imovie 06 which i downloaded following the advice from another discussion. However now that i have done what i wanted with the clips i want to move them back to imovie 08 with the new speed that i have added. Is there anyway to do this as my coursework is due next thursday i really need to find out a way i can do this. thanks.
P.S. i have been using the crop tool in imovie 08 so i cant just load all the footage onto imovie 06 and just do it through that program.

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