My DVD imports into iMovie keep freezing in playback????

Hi there-
I have imported a few DVDs into iMovie using Aimersoft DVD Ripper's full purchased version. They were working fine in playback mode, both down in the Event library and up in the project I was editing. But all of a sudden, when it gets to the clips chosen from my DVDs, it freezes on the frame before it and just stops. It won't play any video or audio from the DVDs. I converted them to "mp4 for iMovie" with Aimersoft and then dragged them into my events from my Finder window when they were imported to the computer. Am I doing something wrong? It's pretty urgent that I complete this project so any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Thanks!
(I am using iMovie on OS X 10.7.4)

One suggestion...
Right click (or control click) on one of your Event clips from the DVD and see if it offers to "Optimize Media". That should fix it.

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