Exporting AVI movie?

During a volunteer project on a local recreational trail, I spontaneously used a Canon point-and-shoot digital camera (a PowerShot A 720 IS) to record the activity. In addition to shooting some still photos, I also decided to try capturing some video with the camera. It's no great piece of cinematography, but our volunteers will definitely appreciate seeing it if I posted it on YouTube.
The clip I shot was just under a minute long. The file was saved by the camera as a 100-megabyte AVI file (640 x 480 resolution). Several months ago, I captured a similar video clip (probably the same camera) for an unrelated project. I was able to upload the video to Apple's iPhoto and then transfer it to iMovie, do a little simple editing, and then upload it from iMovie to YouTube.
I was thinking about doing something like that with this trail work clip. I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow edit the new clip in Final Cut Studio and then upload the finished project to a new YouTube account for the volunteer trails organization (no account set up yet) so our work can be put on display.
How difficult would it be to export the video clip out of iPhoto so that I can import it into Final Cut? (I downloaded MPEG Streamclip so I can convert an AVI file, but the clip is currently stored in iPhoto.)

How difficult would it be to export the video clip out of iPhoto so that I can import it into Final Cut?
Terribly, terribly difficult.
Select the video in the iPhoto Window.
Go File -> Export. In the resulting dialogue select *Kind: Original*
Continue the export to the desktop.
Regards
TD

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fps - set
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