Canon Powershot SD1100, importing videos freezes iPhoto 08?

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I recently got a new puppy and have been taking quite a few short video clips with my Canon SD1100, however when I try to import them into iPhoto 08 the application just freezes and eventually closes. Upon reloading iPhoto it says that X number of photos/videos were not imported, do I want to import them now and when I say YES the same thing happens again. If I say NO it puts them in a a folder named iPhoto Library Recovered Photos_X. I've noticed it doesn't happen on all videos, just rather large ones (~300MB). I've got all the latest updates installed. Any ideas?
Thank you.

pcmike
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
iPhoto will baulk at importing larger files directly from the camera. The work around is to move the files from the camera to desktop using Image Capture and then import them to iPhoto.
Regards
TD

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