Can I download large movie files to iphoto?

Hi all you great experts out there .  I am having trouble downloading 12GB of video which I took on my Canon EOS7D. I am using an IOGEAR card reader connected to my Mac OS X (version 10.6.8) computer with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, running Snow Leopard. I am currently using iphoto and imovie '09. The card seems to register with my computer as the icon appears on my desktop and also in iphoto under "Devices".   Iphoto is open and I currently see "Loading photos" on my screen with the twirling sun dial.
Does it just take a long time to download 1+ hours of video?
OR
Is there another step that I need to add?
OR
Perhaps do I need to purchase the '11 version of iphoto/imovie? 
I eventually want to edit the video in iMovie.  I read in a couple of the threads that I may need to use the apple application "image capture" to copy the movie to desktop and then import.  I have not tried that yet, I am hoping the "sun dial" will stop spinning soon or that you all will have a magical response for me!  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks so much from this Techie wanna be  

iPhoto is known to choke on movie files over a certain size.  To get the larger videos either use Image Capture or a card reader to upload the file to the Desktop first and then into iPhoto.
OT

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