No iPhoto Video Thumbnails in iMovie

Hi Guys,
I have a problem with generated iPhoto-Video-Thumbnails in iMovie .
It seems that iMovie is not able to create Video-Thumbnails out of iPhoto-Videos, if iPhoto-contents (pictures and videos) are stored outside of iPhoto Library.
If I allow iPhoto to copy pictures and videos into iPhoto library (during import), iMovie is able to generate those Video-Thumbnails from iPhoto-Videos.
Is there any kind of workaround to solve this problem.
I'm not willing to copy my iPhoto-stuff into iPhoto library due to the new iPhoto folder-structure, which is used since iPhoto 11.
Many thanks in advance of some helping hands...

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