My recent iMovie project is only 15 minutes long and causes iMovie to be extremely slow.  What do i do?

I'm currently working on what I thought was a relatively simple movie project in iMovie when after putting only 15 minutes of audio and video together the program is acting extremely sluggish and slow to respond.  Most of the raw video used was filmed with GoPro action cameras in HD but were imported in the Large size formatting as opposed to the Actual size so as to reduce file size.  Is there a way to make speed up iMovie?

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