Why is my iMovie so slow to open and at times freezes

my imovie has always appeared to be "slow" (EVERYTHING else for all of my Apple products is "instant") but now my imovie, every once and a while, will freeze during a movie im making.  It does "report a error but i never keep the error since the error states that it will notify Apple.  I did go to the online / phone call help center and the tech rep helped me delete some of the "permissions in the library" but it still takes a while to load it up.  i havent had the time to work on imovie since the "attempted" fix so i dont know if the freezing issue is fixed (i assume not since the load time appears to be worse) but was wandering if anyone else has had this problem?  thanks!

my imovie has always appeared to be "slow" (EVERYTHING else for all of my Apple products is "instant") but now my imovie, every once and a while, will freeze during a movie im making.  It does "report a error but i never keep the error since the error states that it will notify Apple.  I did go to the online / phone call help center and the tech rep helped me delete some of the "permissions in the library" but it still takes a while to load it up.  i havent had the time to work on imovie since the "attempted" fix so i dont know if the freezing issue is fixed (i assume not since the load time appears to be worse) but was wandering if anyone else has had this problem?  thanks!

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