IMovie Not Importing Aperture Photos

I recently purchased a ContourROAM camera with the intention of creating some time lapse videos while on bike rides. Did my first ride with the camera, set to 6 pics every 1min, and captured 830 some-odd photos on my ride. Got home, uploaded them to Aperture and opened up iMovie. When I tried to drag all 830 photos from the media viewer over to the project, it only imported 170 photos. Tried it multiple times with the same result.
Anyone else have similar issues with iMovie?
Btw, I did solve this issue by directly importing the photos off the camera card to iMovie... however it would sure be nice if Aperture and iMovie would play nicely together.

I would suggest creating an album in Aperture containing the photos in the order you want them. Then in iMovie, open the Photo Browser to Aperture and drag in the icon for the Album.
Make sure you make an Album. A Project will work, but will not necessarily keep them in order.

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Macuser72 wrote:
Aperture is not importing all photos from the card reader, i tried importing 720 photos and it was only seeing 480 photos, the card reader stopped reading, aperture was saying "loading assets", still, like if it was still reading the card. and the first time it loaded the pictures the import button was not availllable once not all the photos were not all loaded when the loading assets message stopped.
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When you say "the first time it loadedthe pictures" you mean you attempted before and got the same result?
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