Confused where to store movies. In iPhoto or iMovie

When I hookup my camera, all the photos and video clips download right into iPhoto. I just learned tonight that I can import these directly into iMovie, which seems nice. However, iPhoto has the ability to assign keywords and such to video clips. So it seems there are advantages to storing the video clips in both places. What do most people do?
For all the videos that are already in iPhoto, is there an easy way to yank them out and only have them exist in iMovie?
Thanks!

In my opinion iMove is for editing not storing or managing archived files. iPhoto is a somewhat decent management program so keep your movies in there and only drag the files you need for projects in iMovie into iMovie.

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1. Launch iMovie and import the movies from iPhoto
2. No. You can launch iMovie, insert your media and import directly to iMovie. If you do this often you might want to change the default action when a camera is connected in the iPhoto preferences
LN

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Anyway, if its better to store in iphoto, is there a way for imovie to show videos stored in multiple iphoto libraries?
Thanks in advance for any pearls of wisdom...

I think it's a matter of choice, personally I don't see any particular advantage in moving them (with possible exceptions) but there would really be no need to have them in both places.
The exceptions I mention are:
Having video in im instead of ip, frees the video from being stored in your photo library, you would be able to move it to an external drive for example without having to move all of your photo library.
Also being in iphoto, the video is shared with other iphoto users, this isn't the case with im video.

Import movies to iphotos or iMovies?

I am not a professional videographer. I am just wondering which place is better to import my videos to---Iphoto or IMovie? And why? I understand there is alot more I can do with the movie if I upload to IMovie but, is there any negative to storing them there?

Best to store them in the Movies folder.

How do I import all my movies from iPhoto to iMovie at once?

I have years of movies in iPhoto and would like to export them to iPhoto all at once. Is there a way to search for all movies and export/import them to iMovie?

Hey there tkeale,
You can access the videos in your iPhoto library the same way you access photos, that way you don't have to go about copying the videos to the desktop from iPhoto and then importing them to iMovie and waste all that hard drive space.
iMovie (2013): Add photos and video clips from iPhoto or Aperture
Add a photo from your iPhoto or Aperture library
In the Libraries list, select your iPhoto or Aperture library.
Do any of the following:
To browse albums: Choose Albums from the pop-up menu at the top of the browser, and then scroll through the thumbnails of the photos in the selected album.
To browse events: Choose Events from the pop-up menu at the top of the browser, and then scroll through the thumbnails of the photos in the selected event.
Events only appear in your iPhoto library.
To browse faces: Choose Faces from the pop-up menu at the top of the browser, and then scroll through the thumbnails of the photos in the selected event.
To browse projects: Choose Projects from the pop-up menu at the top of the browser, and then scroll through the thumbnails of the photos in the selected project.
Projects only appear in your Aperture library.
To find a photo by its filename or keywords: Use the search field at the top of the browser.
Select the photo you want to use to see a preview in the viewer.
Do one of the following:
To insert the photo: Drag it to the timeline between clips or between a clip and a transition.
As you drag, a blue box appears in the timeline, indicating where the photo will appear in the timeline.
To replace a clip with the photo: Drag the photo on top of a clip in the timeline.
As you drag, a white border appears around the clip in the timeline. When you release the mouse button, choose Replace from the menu that appears. The photo replaces the clip in the timeline.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

I can't get my movies from iphoto to imovie

I am very new to mac. I just got my first mac a month ago. I am trying really hard to make a movie. I can get pictures from iphoto onto imovie no problem. But I can't get movies. I can see my movies and play them on iphoto, but when I bring up things to import only photos show up. Somehow by accident I imported 8 videos straight from my camera into imovie and they work just fine..once they get in there. On the tutorial videos it says that imovie will automatically ask if you want to import videos straight from your camera onto imovie. Mine has never done this. I don't know. I have been watching tutorial videos and messing with this thing for 2 weeks and I can't seem to make a movie with any movie clips!! I can make one just fine if I only want to use pictures. I am just so frustrated!! One of the main reasons I got a mac was so I could make better videos for youtube.

It stuck the new clip into documents and so how do I get it into imovie now?
If you don't want the file placed there, next time change the target location before pressing the "Make" button. Appleman has given you one easy method. Another would be to simply drag the file from the "Documents" folder and drop it to any Event name in your Event Library list. Another method would be to create a new folder, name it, put the file in the named folder and place the folder into any convenient "iMovie Events" folder already in use. The next time you open iMovie, the new "Event" folder name will show up in the Event Library list. Be advised however, that movie clips cannot be dropped directly to either a Project window (like music or photos) or an Event window.
I am so frustrated with this thing!! I just bought this new ilife disk thing because it was supposed to make it easier to make movies or something. I haven't found the 'easier' part yet. ugh.
Multiplexed MPEG formats (MPG, MPeG, VOB, MOD, MTS, M2TS, etc.) cannot be edited at the frame level. They must be converted. You can either convert them yourself or try to get iMovie '09 to convert them as part of an "Import from Camera/Archive" process. Some individual have reported the iMovie '09 will convert multiplexed MPEG-1 files, as well as, MPEG-2 files. You can always search the forum and see if you can duplicate their work flow. I usually recommend MPEG Streamclip since it is 100% effective assuming the source file is not corrupted (i.e., improperly terminated and track descriptions are in tact.) It also has the ability to "fix" timecode breaks which can occur when segments are merged. While PC platforms ignore such things, QT does not since it uses temporal synchronization rather than spatial synchronizations.

Where to store movies ? in the iPhoto Library or the iMovie Library

Hi,
I never had a digital video camera. All my video footage has been shot with my photo cameras. I started with very few clips, never really used iMovie and was most of the time a happy camper with iPhoto. As the photos and the video clips were and are produced on the same device I just followed the most convenient way and imported everything into my iPhoto library.
Switching to the Panasonic FZ18 at the end of 2007 and to the Panasonic FZ28 lead to better "quality" clips and I am now generating much more video footage than I did previously. I did not change the old habit of importing everything into my iPhoto library.
In the middle of the transition to iLife 09 I ask myself if this decision is still the best. So what I need are some arguments pro and con.
Shall I separate my video clips from the iPhoto library and transfer them to the iMovie video library to make them real iMovie events and not only part of the iPhoto section? What would be benefits?
How would this be done? Export the videos from iPhoto delete them in iPhoto and import them into iMovie? We are talking about 6 hours 30 minutes of footage in about 800 clips.
How would the import from the device or the storage card be done in the future?
Thanks in advance
when I started using iLife 08 I imported all my photos and all video clips shot withfootage into iPhto

I think it's a matter of choice, personally I don't see any particular advantage in moving them (with possible exceptions) but there would really be no need to have them in both places.
The exceptions I mention are:
Having video in im instead of ip, frees the video from being stored in your photo library, you would be able to move it to an external drive for example without having to move all of your photo library.
Also being in iphoto, the video is shared with other iphoto users, this isn't the case with im video.

How do I import movies from iPhoto to imovie

I have some video in iphoto, which doesn't appear in imovie - why is this?
Any suggestions very welcome.
Mark

Another possibility is to use the media browser in iMovie to access the iPhoto library directly.

Is it best to upload HD movies from a camcorder to iMovie or iPhoto. iMovie gives the option for very large file sizes - presumably it is best to use this file size because the HD movie is then at its best quality?

Is it best to upload hd movie to iPhoto or iMovie? iMovie seems to store the movie in much larger files - presumably this is preferable as a larger file is better quality?

Generally it is if you're comparing identical compressors & resolutions but there's something else happening here. If you're worried about quality degrading; check the original file details on the camera (or card) either with Get Info or by opening in QuickTime and showing info. You should find the iPhoto version (reveal in a Finder) is a straight copy. You can't really increase image quality of a movie (barring a few tricks) by increasing file size but Apple editing products create a more "scrub-able" intermediate file which is quite large.
Good luck and happy editing.

I have been using OS X Lion until last night. Now using OS X Yosemite. But I am not allowed to update my iPhoto or iMovie. How can I fix this?

I have been using OS X Lion for years. Last night I updated to OS X Yosemite. Now I cannot update either my iPhoto nor iMovie. How do I fix this? Telling me to go to the Support at App Store is not helpful as they are oriented to my MacBook Pro and not toward the theft of my iPhoto or iMovie. Is there any way around the App Store mismanagement of AppleID for these applications?

What happens when you try to download the new iPhoto and iMovie? Do you get any message and if so what is it? What do you mean by "theft of my iPhoto or iMovie"? Who do you think stole them?
One trick to try is to move the iPhoto and iMovie apps to the Trash in the Dock but don't empty as yet. Then go to the App Store and try to download the apps again.

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Oh sorry!! It turns out that when you import movies into iPhoto '08, when you export them they come out as images, instead of movies; how strange!! :S You can view movies in iPhoto but you can't get them out of there, thanks for your help anyways , you can drag and drop movies from iPhoto into iMovie so I'm all sorted now.

Where to store your videos (2014): iPhoto vs iTunes vs iMovie?

I used to store all my home videos in iPhoto, because I think It's better to save videos and pictures together in the same event.
But now that we have a tab in iTunes for 'home videos' and we also have 'theater' tab in iMovie.... Where do you think is better to save your home videos?
The idea is to watch them later in AppleTV, iPads, etc.
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Open iPhoto and iMovie. Find the video is iPhoto and control click to get the contextual menu. There is an option to locate in Finder. Click on that and a Finder window opens with the video file highlighted. Drag that file to iMovie to import. After importing you can delete the one in iPhoto to avoid duplication.
As for events, iMovie automatically lists them by day. By default a event is a day but you can change it anyway you prefer.

Store mov files in iPhoto

I want to store all my movies in iPhoto. I have converted all movies to MOV file format. I imported some movies into iPhoto to make some experience. For me it looks ok. But I have seen nothing regarding usage of mov-files in iPhoto on all official publications of Apple regarding iPhoto. In my eyes the advantages of this approach are:
I can use only iPhoto as single tool to manage all my pictures and movies
I can organize the pictures and movies by events directly in iPhoto
But before I import now all my movies to iPhoto I would like to get feedback from the community. Is there somebody who has already experience with managing movies in iPhoto? I would be specially interested into following:
Are there any issues with mov files stored in the iPhoto library?
Are there any disadvantages when I put all my mov-files in iPhoto?
Do you have any other good approach how I can manage my movies if I am not using iPhoto?

Open a movie file in Quicktime Player and bring up the Inspector window. In it will show what the format of the movie is.. As TD pointed out it can differ even though the extension is the same.
Here are two movies with the .mov extensions with different codec formats:

So where are the real photos that are used between iPhoto and iMovie?

OK....this is getting ridiculous...
So where the heck does iMovie and iPhoto really store and pull the images from cause this makes no sense...
I will try and make this is a shorten version of a long story...Here is what I am dealing with...
G5 with iLife 06 and all updates...
Powerbook Pro with iLife 06 and all updates...
Spent five days editing project on my Macbook Pro --> emptied trash and bye bye project...Started over on my G5 since none of my clips are editable now (Thanks Apple! I needed that)
I had previously spent a week editing over 200 photos in Photoshop on my Macbook...This included color correction and dust and scratches as well as some retouching...So I transferred all Photos onto my G5 from my Macbook Pro and imported into Library...New discovery...Photos look like crap now...Like they were never cleaned up at all...Interesting...
So I start redoing some of these retouches and save them...Of course the changes are not reflected in iPhoto or iMovie since it doesn't really use the originals again after the initial import...Or does it?
So now here is another baffling thing to me...I do red eye correction to some photos and it is an immeditate change that can be seen in iMovie when importing...But if I rotate the pictures, no...sorry that only seems to take effect after I rotate the original in Photoshop and then reimport into my iPhoto library and delete the duplicates that have now gotten created in the process...
Can someone help me understand what is going on...This added work is giving me a headache...Where and how does iPhoto store and use the images? Why if i rotate a photo it doesn't take effect in iPhoto/iMovie unless I completely reimport, but I can remove red eye instantly...And what has happened to all the changes I made to the existing photos to remove the dust and scratches originally?

All images must be in a project. You can place then in as many albums as you wish- even albums outside the project where they reside- but they will remain in the project.
Move the images to the album. Then drag them over the project where the album resides and they will be moved to that projects. If you drag them to an album and not the project, they will remain in the original project.
Kinda hard to wrap your head around at first, but you'll see that it makes perfect sense as you progress with the application.
DLS

Available updates for iphoto and imovie on apple store.

My apple informs me that I have available updates for iphoto and imovie, however when I try to update them I receive a message that i can't do this because I do not have the major version. How to proceed?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Open Finder and go to the folder where these applications are. Then, move them to Applications folder. Finally, open the App Store and update them to the most recent version. If it doesn't work, see if they are hidden, and if they are hidden, unhide them > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4928

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