"Optimizing Movies": Extremely slow start-up

Hi, this seems to be a common problem, yet no forum on the subject provides a solid answer. When I start iMovie 09, it takes a very long time to open because it is "Optimizing Movies". As I write this, I have been sitting at my macbook for no less than 20 minutes waiting for it to finish, an STILL it's not done! ***? My iMovie events are on a separate drive, but the folder is not set to "locked" as someone suggested in another forum. Please help, Thanks.

Like you, I keep my Events on an external drive (connected via FireWire 800). I've noticed that iMovie generally only runs the optimize process if I've disconnected then reconnected the drive to my MacBook Pro. As I don't move the MacBook Pro much, I tend to have the drive connected most of the time and therefore don't get the Optimization routine running very often.
So, if you are disconnecting your drive frequently, this may be the cause of the optimization issue.
John

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