'Processing Event...' iMac takes ages, MacBook Pro less than 1 sec! What?

I have an iMac and MacBook Pro of similar spec and vintage (2-3 years old) and use iMovie daily for work - editing skydiving footage. We need videos done FAST, and herein lies the problem..
When importing new footage from the cameras (ContourHD) and then opening iMovie, the iMac takes a long time 'Processing Event' while doing exactly the same action with the MacBook Pro 'Processing Event' either takes a split second or doesn't even happen, iMovie just opens with the new Event just sitting there - no processing required.
What is going on! It has been like this in all the versions of iMovie. We also have a new 27" iMac and this behaves like the other iMac, ie, takes a while (several minutes to Process Event).
Is there something that we have missed in Preferences in the iMac's? I cannot find any difference between the computers, in fact the MacBook Pro was rebuilt in the image of one of the iMac's from it's Time Machine backup. Also the Pro has half the RAM of the iMacs.
Any ideas?

Yes on the iMac, no on the Pro. Uninstalled it off the iMac - no difference.
I might point out that the Pro sometimes does take a while 'creating thumbnails - processing event' so might investigate this further. It might be that the videos were first downloaded onto the iMac where the thumbnails were created then copied to the Pro afterwards for further editing. I'll check it out.

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