Can iphoto be confgured not to import movies from the camera?

Hello, Does anyone knows if iphoto 8 can be configure not to try to import the movies stored on the camera? It cause the import process to be very difficult trying to select only the photos to be imported and leave the movies to be imported by imovie. I will like iphoto only to import photos and imovie to import movies.

No there is no way to specifically tell iPhoto not to import movies.
However, if you sue a camera that mounts on the desktop (or, in the case of a Canon camera, use a USB Card Reader) you can direct iPhoto to import from the Photos folder on the Card using the File -> Import Command
Regards
TD

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Tim:
Image Capture controls which application, if any, to launch when a camera is connected to the computer. Launch Image Capture and then connect the camera to the Mac. You can then manually upload the movie file to the desktop and try importing from there.
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Terence,
not sure what happens here right now, I didn't mean to be offensive. So please let's stay calm. There are some issues with Panasonics described in these threads, and they do sound similar to the issue I'm facing (somewhat hard to say, as a) these people do not use exactly the same camera as I do and b) the descriptions of their problems are not very detailed). I would retract the term "a LOT of issues". Sorry.
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