Importing and Managing Digital Movie Files in Aperture

It's been a while since this topic was addressed (Dec 2006 http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3639422&tstart=0#3644525) and now days most prosumer SLR can record short videos. Furthermore, although Aperture is indeed a pro App designed for still images, it would be very nice if it could handle anything coming out of our digital cameras (movies included). Apple has a long tradition of making digital life simpler, and having to handle movies and pictures coming from the exact same source is not simpler.
As my photo is maturing and becoming more serious (and semipro) I'm graduating from iPhoto into Aperture (bliss) but I'm being left in limbo when importing my iPhoto Library where I had a few hundred quicktime movies acquired over the last 5 years.
After a painful import process I'm shocked to realize that Aperture 2.x does not handle movie files like iPhoto does. All I'm asking for here is for Aperture store a link to a referenced movie file and a small thumbnail, like iPhoto has done for years, which can then be opened by any movie editing software such as Quicktime Pro, etc.
Anyway, Aperture team, with the advent of Liveview on Canon and other SLR recording movies, some of us would very much appreciate the ability to manage small videos within Aperture.
Will the Aperture team support this new feature? When?
Any supporter say Ey!

As I’m sure you recall from your careful reading of the Terms of Service you agreed to when you joined the Apple Discussions, this is a User to User forum. Apple aren’t here. They don’t promise to read anything here.
Aperture menu -> Provide Aperture Feedback is the route that will bring your feature request to the folks that can implement it.
Regards
TD

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