Importing into iMovie from iPhoto

I am trying to create a movie on iMovie using still photos and video clips that are in iPhoto. Most of the clips automatically appeared in events, except for two that I need. I have no idea how to get these videos into iMovie and I have tried everything from trying to drag it into iMovie to saving it to my desktop and then importing it into iMovie. Nothing works... I am going crazy. Please help:)

Hey there guys
i just did brought some video into imovie. This is what U do (ilife 09):
I had video on my iphone. I had all video go straight to iphoto. Click on this video you want (More then two and it will take over 30min to download to imovie, I take ten).
Go to file then Export. Another box will come "Export photo" Look down for the word "Kind" make sure "Original" is selected. Hit Export at the bottom. Now your finder Window will come up, now name the movie and make sure to keep the file ext. name "mov". save it to your desk top or file.
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.
Hope that helps
Why_atl

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