Advice required using iPhoto/Journal

I am making a simple project of selected days using iPhoto Journals.  Some days have a series of photos and some days have photos plus a short (1m 50s) video clip made with iMovie).  Other days I have made a short 'movie' slideshow of photos backed with some theme music.
All these work perfectly on iPhoto.  My problem comes when I upload them to iCloud as often not all the movie clip or slideshow uploads.   When I pick up the link for the 'day' or try to view it on Safari, I have the shortened version of the slideshow or movie.   For example I get 5 or 7 seconds of the movie only when there should be 1min 50secs.  This seems to be an intermittant problem and I'm not sure how to overcome it.  Video clips uploaded direct from my camera to iPhoto work fine. 
I was wondering whether anyone has any ideas of how to overcome this problem. 

B Webs
Welcome to the APple user dioscussion forums
I'm a new mac user and just finished moving all my pictures over using Finder. I then imported them to the iphoto library. I understand how iphoto works in general but i have a few questions.
1) is it worth keeping the original picture files around (organized in a very PC way) on my HD after importing to iphoto, or is this totally redundant
Assuming that you have left the default preference setting to copy items to the iPhoto Library checked (also the highly recommended setting) there is no reason to keep the originals once they are imported to the iPhoto library -- BUT it is always important to BACK UP
2) I have third party software for working with RAW, will i be able to export the RAW photo, make the changes and then re-import, does this make sense?
you can set the third party software as the external editor of iPhoto - edit the photos and save (not save as) to return the resulting edited JPEG to iPhoto to be saved as the modified version
3) Is the best way to back up my pictures by keeping a copy of the iphoto library on an external hard drive or does TM do a good job
Personal choice - TM does a good job - I personally prefer having a bootable clone of my entire system updated daily on an external drive ready to go - other prefer TM
I will add TM later but to protect from my errors - I see the cline as being better protection from hardware failures
LN

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    MM no longer exists. It was discontinued 6/30
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    My first experience with iphoto, it corrupted all of my picture files. Luckily I had them all saved on an external harddrive, so I didn't lose them. But many people don't do that and the risk of them losing all of their picture files using iphoto is high. And yes, I tried all of the things listed to rebuild the file and none of them worked. I spoke with tech support and they confirmed that all of my files were corrupted and useless.
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    I posted because I have a question: why use iphoto? I want to hear someone tell me exactly why they use it and what they love about the program so I can figure out how I can use it to its fullest potential. Please, someone help me understand.
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    Pre iPhoto: After my first child was born I got a digital camera and a hand-me-down Mac. I uploaded photos to the hard drive and moved them around in the Finder. I renamed my files to try to help me remember the subject of the photos, tried to organize folders. I got Photoshop Elements and began editing. Then I had to keep edited photos separate from the unedited photos, to somehow know which was which. Some I downsized and uploaded to a sharing website. I needed to know which photos had been shared, so I kept them in another set of folders. If I printed or used photos in a project, I needed them in folders.
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    Skip ahead to my next hand-me-down Mac, which had iPhoto. I imported my folders of photos. Now I could see them quickly without opening in Preview. It was easy to determine which were duplicates and keep the best one. I got all my images in one easy place and used it only to view my photos. Not knowing any better, I looked in the iPhoto Library folder and found lots of nested numeric folders. Many were empty. It seemed messy, so I consolidated (OOPS) those nasty folders. When I returned to iPhoto, my photos had been replaced with blank placeholders. This brought me to the Apple Discussions, where I learned the golden rule of iPhoto (and any database application): don't change things through the Finder. I put those folders all back and restored the links to all of the photos. It took some time, but I learned a valuable lesson.
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