IMovie not finding my movies in iPhoto

Is there a reason why iMovie is not automatically finding the movies I have saved in iPhoto? I have many movie clips from my camera that I imported into iPhoto and would like to move them over to iMovie. Or do I have to import these clips separately from my camera directly to iMovie?

Hi. Similar issue. When I loaded iMovie 08, yesterday, it automatically imported videos from my iPhoto 08 library. Today, when I imported video and pictures into iPhoto 08, iMovie didn't update to show me all of the videos I just imported. The video clips are all .mov format from a Kodak V570 camera. I can view the clips from iPhoto 08 with QT just fine. Frustrating.

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That would be simple....
I am having a similar problem trying to find images I have imported into iPhoto not showing up in iMovie. I have tried the fixes they suggest in the iMovie help file: "iLife: Cannot See iPhoto Files in Other iLife Applications" and they do not help.
However, the images do not show up in iMovie even though the events and photos show up in iPhoto and other events and images... from earlier show up in iMovie. At least until March 22 08. I don't use iPhoto or iMovie very much as I don't have a Digital Camera or Cell Phone. I do have a project now that they would be perfect for and now...
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~ Darrell

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After calling Apple (they were no help and I was disappointed) I kept searching in the Apple support community and found the answer.
To get iMovie '11 to show the iPhoto videos under the event library on the bottom left of iMovie, you simply have to empty your iPhoto trash. Once the trash was emptied, I restarted iMovie and the problem was fixed after iMovie did a search and showed the thumbnails of the videos.
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The movies you are trying to sync are most likely, not a format that is compatible with iPad.
iTunes includes a built in feature that will convert movie files to the proper format. Take a look at the iTunes help menu: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/9.1/en/31445.html
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL970
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This is probably something really stupid, but I saved an iMovie to one of my external drives and deleted it from the one where I created it because I needed more space on that drive. No problem, finished the movie, made iDVD disk image and burned it to DVD, exported the iMovie back to miniDV tapes. I am now ready to delete the iMovie, but......I CAN'T FIND IT!
I can open it by opening iMovie from the Dock and selecting 'Open Recent' so I know it is there somewhere. I think I accidentally saved it to some file that I had had open before working with iMovie, not the usual 'Movies' file. But, I cannot find it when I look in the files on the external drives; I have four of them.
I tried doing a Save As, but that just led to the iMovie being copied to my desktop, and does not solve the problem of finding the original so I can delete it.
Is there any way to find the path of the location of the iMovie when I have it open? Or any other way? Mac Help did not address this situation.

Well, I solved the mystery! And, no, the project name was only 2009 Part 3 no other characters in the name.
Strangely, after searching for 'iMovie' '501' and items by size (had to search to find out how to do this....obviously I don't use the 'Find' function too often), I never did find any evidence of the project on any of my drives.
However, when I opened iMovie again....the copied one... and then looked again at 'Open Recent' the two titles were there, but instead of the folder icons and the file names of 'Movies' and '501' the titles were now followed by the icons of my external drives and the drives' names!
Aha! I am thinking.... now I know where the original is located! Searched for it on that particular drive...not there.
I finished the new iDVD project, created my disk image file, burned my 5 DVD disks, played one in my DVD player to be sure it worked fine, copied my iMovie back to miniDV tape......THEN I DELETED THE COPIED IMOVIE......and....(drum roll please...) BOTH MOVIES DISAPPEARED FROM THE IMOVIE 'Open Recent' choice!! AND, both external drives showed an increase of about 22 GB each...recovering the GB used by each iMovie.
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Thank you Karsten for your patient persistent help with this rather weird situation!

IMovie not finding my movies in iPhoto

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