Exporting .avi video from iphoto

I have a new Nikon coolpix S3500 point & shoot camera and it does video that imports to iPhoto11 just fine. I can export a 30 second video to the desktop and I get a non-working .avi video when I open in QTpro consisting of the first frame only and size is 205KB. I can drag to the desktop and I get a working file with the .avi extension and a size of 21KB which only works on my computer in QTpro. In QTpro I can save it as a .mov file and its over 20MB in size that I can take to any computer. My iPhone videos in iPhoto exports as .mov as does my Canon EOS Ti1 SLR videos. There does not appear to be a way for iPhoto to export the coolpix videos as .mov or as a working file. If I go into iMovie I can see the video and can work with it there. I'm not understanding: the video is there in iPhoto, but I cannot export it directly to the desktop to pass along. Appreciate someone explaining please.

There does not appear to be a way for iPhoto to export the coolpix videos as .mov or as a working file.
As a working file: File -> Export and set the Kind it Original. This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
No, iPhoto has no ability to transcode video to different formats.

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