Help - Photos to iMovie

Can I drag photos directly into iMovie or do need to import them into iPhoto first? The files are nef/RAW

Haven't you ever used a Media Browser before?
You can create an Album - or not - but creating an Album will perhaps make it easier to find the pics. You can access every single photo in your Aperture Library from the media browser.
You don't "download the album to iMovie". Just select a pic and drag into the project window.
Just launch iMovie and try it. There's less to this than meets the eye
Regards
TD

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. I have a external harddrive that Time Machine is enabled. I also backed u my iphoto & photo booth library to the external drive. I have yet to move over any imovie data until I am sure that process will work.
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