Rendering clips

I have made several movie/slideshows and have never had any problems. All of a sudden, after my children have been using it, I can not successfully make a movie with photographs. I started to create a new movie, and when I went to save it, it says that it is rendering clips. Usually it only takes a few seconds to render, but now it does nothing... just states that it is rendering clips. Can anyone help? Thanks!

iMovie looks in your "Pictures" folder for the photos. When you use iMovie's photo browser it only presents the "thumbnail views" (very small reference copies of the originals).
First when you render your project iMovie then uses the original photos to create the finished movie.
You should have a folder in your Pictures folder called "iPhoto Library", this contains sub folders. At least one named with the year, inside that, one with the month, then one with the day. Further sub folders contain the "Originals" and "Thumbs". If any of these folders are renamed, moved or otherwise tampered with, iMovie (and iPhoto) will not be able to find the material it needs to do the job.

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I am working on an interview I shot with 2 Canon DSLRs, a 500D and a Rebel T3i, using audio captured with an M-Audio Microtrack II. The audio was edited down in Premiere then rendered out and handed over to a third party to be cleaned up in Pro Tools. The length of the edited interview is just short of 4 minutes.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
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