Import Movies from iPhoto?

I have a large number of movies in iPhoto spanning hundreds of events. I'd like to import these into iMovie so that they are stored in my iMovie events folders and completely removed from iPhoto.
I don't see this as an option in iMovie. Is this possible to do without a complicated workaround?

There are two ways to do this, provided they are in a format that is editable by iMovie.
1) Open iPhoto. Open iMovie.
2) In iPhoto, right-click on the movie and select "Reveal in Finder"
3) In iMovie, select File/Import/From File and navigate to the folder in iPhoto. If it offers to Move it into iMovie, say yes.
There is a faster way, if you have hundreds of events. Close iMovie.
Go to the Movies/iMovie Events folder on your Macintosh HD drive.
Or create a folder named iMovie Events at the top level of an external drive (the external drive MUST be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled).
Then create subfolders under this iMovie Events folder. The subfolders should be named with the names you want to use for the event names.
Drag the video clips into the appropriate sub-folders.
Then open iMovie and let it take the take to generate thumbnails for all these new events.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2196
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