Advice on my plan for importing iPhoto videos to iMovie

For the last several years, I've been importing both my iPhone movies and pics into iPhoto. I'm wanting to move all my iPhoto movies into iMovie for better organization.
Over the years, I've not been a fan of the "iPhoto Videos" tab in iMovie (I'm still running iPhoto/iMovie 09 here). Videos seem to go missing at times, and I like more specific events on my sidebar.
Here's what I'm thinking of doing after some research. In iMovie, I'm going to File-Import-Movies. Once there, I'm going down the sidebar to Media-Movies. Then I go into the iPhoto selection on the right and click on the event in iPhoto (I just arranged all movies/pics in iPhoto by Month taken). Then, I select all the movies in that Event and Import over the iMovie.
This is where my first questions are - I'm given the option to "Optimize" and choose a size - "Full-Original Size" or "Large - 960x540". My plan right now is to go with Full-Original Size. Are there drawbacks to selecting Large as far as quality?
This question may not matter b/c right now, I think I want to "Move files" rather than "Copy Files" If I move them, I no longer have the option of Large size or Optimization. I can't figure out why I wouldn't want to just move them. I don't won't two copies of the movie on my computer. This makes sense right?
And if I move them, it removes them from the iPhoto section of the harddrive and puts them in the iMovie section, correct? I've never quite understood the file management under the hood of iPhoto.
Thanks for any help/advice you can provide!

I am having the same problem. I have posted bu no response. I even went to settings to see if anything was wrong. I thought there was a hidden date issue on my hardware but it is the same no matter what camera I use. Any luck with a resolution yet?

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Thanks

Alright, sounds like a re-install of iMovie is in order, try ths:
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One more time... H.264 is a video compression format. What audio compression format did you use?
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I've posted here before about discrepancies in the date and times of some iPhoto Video as shown in the iPhoto Video library of iMovie '09.
I've manually changed the dates in iMovie of some video and this corrects the issue. However, there are far too many clips to do them all manually.
Also, while attempting to find the cause of the incorrect dates I deleted an iPhoto Video from the iMovie library. iMovie has scanned iPhoto for new video several times, but does not re-import the clip.
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Thanks so much for contributing to this topic and making effort to answer my questions. I called Apple to inquire about this and I have a couple of suggestions that were given to me that may be of some help.
Two solutions were given to me:
1) As QuickTimeKirk stated earlier, .mov or .(whatever else might go here) is only a container for other files. So .mov is not the problem or the unreadable file for Imovie, but whatever other file that may be contained in the .mov container is the problem. Therefore, you may have to obtain a 3rd pary converter. They suggested something like flipformac or quicktime pro. I don't know how hard or easy it may be to work with a converter and I am somewhat on a schedule so I opted for option #2.
2)Download Imovie HD 6 for free, create your project therein, and then export it to Imovie 8 if you wish. Imovie 8 has a tutorial on how to do this if necessary. To download Imovie HD 6 visit http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html.
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