Imovie from iphoto

I am trying to bring an album from iphoto into imovie. The album in iphoto has 135 photos. I imovie it only shows 85. I have spent many hours researching this and understand raw formats can't be brought into imovie. But every image is a jpeg and there does not seem to be any difference between the ones it will bring in, and the ones it won't. Very frustrated!!

Sorry I mis-spoke. Rather than the Media Gallery, look for the little icon that looks like a camera. This is on the tool bar that is between the project pane and the Event pane. It is on the far right of the toolbar (third from the right) between music and transitions.
Go there and follow my advice from above. There should be no problem bringing in 135 photos. I have brought it over 300 at once.

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How are you trying to import from iPhoto to iMovie? The movies in your iPhoto Library should appear in iMovie in the Event Library in the section for your system drive as event "iPhoto Videos".
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2. Restarting the program. (iMovie).
3. Rebooting the Mac Book.
4. Reintalling iLive 11
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Here is an article that can give you an overview of the different ways to import videos in iMovie:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14670
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
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Welcome to the iMovie forum.
When you import your photos into an iMovie project set up for standard NTSC video, the resolution is roughly 640 x 480, in most cases much less resolution than your camera took the image and as displayed in iPhoto.
The imported images can look even worse than the 640 x 480 resolution depending on your playback preview settings, however, the images should look just fine on a TV.
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Hey there guys
i just did brought some video into imovie. This is what U do (ilife 09):
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Right click and open it in imovie. (I would first have imovie already open) After that imovie will open it up.
I've edited ten mimi movies from a b-day party from saturday. Hit me back if u have any problems, because I did down load the latest download and I didn't have any problem getting my iphone video into imovie. You would think there would be a download button in i movie right along with flicker and facebook, to go directly yo imovie.
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Something else is also wrong. This
When I want to import to iMovie, it requests to open iPhoto before I can see the library...
shouldn't happen. I haven't used an alias-based library, but I assume that it should work without you having to locate the source files. It sounds like iPhoto has lost the link to these files and is unable to send them to iMovie. In iPhoto, can you view these photos at full size and open them for editing? If not, that would support my theory.
One way iPhoto could have lost the location of your files would be if you moved or renamed them without using iPhoto. In that case, you'll have to put things back as they were. Or try replacing the alias files with the actual files. If you didn't tamper with iPhoto's files, you may have a damaged database file, which can result from a crash while iPhoto is writing to the database. You can try a rebuild. Hold down the Option and Command keys while launching iPhoto. Select the first 3 options in the dialog box, then rebuild.
One last question: Is there a reason why you are using iMovie 5 with iPhoto 6? Why not upgrade iMovie (and any other iLife '06 app) to match iPhoto? While I don't think that is causing your problem, it seems to be an extra variable with your setup.
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hello
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i have alot of movies on my iphoto and tried to upload to imovie.
the program does not respond!
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i tried uploading from the hard drive and got the same result.
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Process the Movie in iMovie then export it as a mov file to the finder and then import to iphoto.
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(Underline is my emphasis)
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