Faces in iPhoto 11 video clips

I used to be able to add "Faces" to video clips in iPhoto. Now with the upgrade to iPhoto11, I can't do it any more. Any ideas?

Previously when videos were imported into iPhoto 09 a jpg was created from the first frame to use as a thumbnail. It's that thumbnail that was scanned by iPhoto for faces and not all faces in the video file.
Many videos end up with a blank frame at the start. So what good is the faces scan if it can only scan what's in the first frame of the video?
I'm guessing that's why it was dropped from iPhoto 11.
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