Automator droplet to filter movies and pictures into separate folders?

Hey everyone, I'm a frustrated photographer and I've got a camera that gives me a SD card that looks like this:
I want to create a droplet that after importing into my computer, I can organize the .rw2, .JPG and .MOV files into their own respective folders so the end product looks like this:
I know I can sort by filetype and create a folder based on that, but I just want to highlight everything, throw it on the droplet, and end up with folders.
I came pretty close with this:
but it only copies the jpegs into a new folder, leaving the old ones.  I want to MOVE the pictures to the new folder I created.  I have to do this for a lot of "example folders" so the "Same Folder as Input" feature is what I need to utilize.  Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks so much.

Awesome, thank you so much! That's exactly what I was looking for.  To take it one step further, it would be great to make it universal not for just my camera, but for all cameras.  I have a Panasonic (.RW2), but I went ahead and added Canon (.CR2) Nikon (.NEF) and a bunch of other RAW photo types and other video types as well:
jpg_folder="JPEG"  
raw_folder="RAW" 
mov_folder="VIDEO" 
for f in "$@" ### loop, for each dropped folder 
do 
    if [ -d "$f" ]; then ## this item is a directory 
       cd "$f" 
       /bin/mkdir -p {"$jpg_folder","$raw_folder","$mov_folder"} ### create sub-folders, if not already exists 
       /bin/mv -n *.JPG "$jpg_folder" ### move .JPG files (important: matching case ".JPG" does not equal ".jpg" ) 
       /bin/mv -n *.RW2 "$raw_folder" ### move .RW2 files 
       /bin/mv -n *.CR2 "$raw_folder" ### move .CR2 files
       /bin/mv -n *.NEF "$raw_folder" ### move .NEF files
       /bin/mv -n *.ARW "$raw_folder" ### move .ARW files
       /bin/mv -n *.ORF "$raw_folder" ### move .ORF files
       /bin/mv -n *.RAF "$raw_folder" ### move .RAF files
       /bin/mv -n *.DNG "$raw_folder" ### move .DNG files
       /bin/mv -n *.MOV "$mov_folder" ### move .MOV files
       /bin/mv -n *.MP4 "$mov_folder" ### move .MP4 files
       /bin/mv -n *.AVI "$mov_folder" ### move .AVI files
       /bin/mv -n *.MTS "$mov_folder" ### move .MTS files
   fi 
done
It functions great, but for some reason gives me this error message every time:
Any ideas as to why?  I can live with clicking OK every time, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something easily fixable.
The other thing I was wondering how to add was a move to trash function.  Canon cameras create a .THM reference file that's useless once transferred to a computer:
How would you add a function to automatically move the THM files to the trash?  Your brilliance is greatly appreciated on behalf of all photo geeks like myself.

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