Slow iMovie '08 launch (iPhoto movie clip export)

After using iMovie 6 HD intensively for a year, I'm quite impressed with the new '08, especially its skimming and selection features and the whole new approach to quicker home movie creation.
Surely the new version has many bugs. The worst one which I continuously see is very slow application launch due to automatic iPhoto video export: Every time I start iMovie '08 it takes more than 2 minutes to open the "iPhoto Videos" folder and thumbnails (there are hundreds of movie clips). What is even more frustrating is that the slow loading happens every time (jamming the whole program again) when clicking the movie library icons.
For some reason there is no "Show only Last Import" filtering for iPhoto media, only for clips imported directly from video camera to iMovie '08. This is very frustrating, as I mostly use my digital camera for taking movie clips.
Apple: Please add important filters like "Show: Latest Import Only" (selected as the default!) and "Show: Last Month Only" that would apply to iPhoto movie clips as well.
I tried to workaround the slow start by selecting several clips and marking them as Favourite (to filter by Favourite). This just doesn't work, as one cannot select multiple clips, making it really slow to select each clip individually and mark them as Favourites just to help the application launch in reasonable time.
The other frustrating issue has been disappearing movie "timeline view" (happening quite often after adding clips and transitions). I fix this by opening and closing the project/library browser view, which makes the timeline appear again.
Thank you for a great new movie tool! Please make the critical fixes soon to let me use its full potential.

welcome t1mp to the  iMovie boards ..
... I made a screencapture video with Snap x pro .. a black screen .. What am i missing? ..
you're missing, that iM08 doesn't handle all kind of 'video'; here on the board, we noticed that 'Animation Codec' (=used by SnapZ) creates such an effect: it imports, you can edit it, but on exprt = 'zil.
you have to convert it BEFORE import into iM08; use tools as QuicktimePro (30$), or Mpeg Steamclip (free) to convert it into e.g. dv-stream or AppleIntermediate to make it 'useful' with iM ...

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