Randomize Photos in iMovie importing from iPhoto event?

I have an event in iPhoto that has the photos in order chonologically. I want to be able to make a movie out of these pictures. So I have imported them into iMovie but I cannot find a way to have the picutres in the project randomize their order. I was easily able to do this in Windows (I know I said a bad word). But it is true, windows was able to do this job better. When it comes to video iMovie kicks ____, but when handling photos I am kinda disapointed. Does anyone know how to randomize the photos along the iMovie timeline? Even if it takes an external app or do something outside of iMovie, please let me know. I am sure someone has run into this before?

You can create an Album in iPhoto and drag that in to iMovie. It will stay in the same order - not chronological. But you will need to supply the order.

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command, not the
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