IPhoto 9.4 - can't assign keywords to a movie?

After upgrading iPhoto to v 9.4, I can no longer tag video files with keywords.
This is for newly imported videos, as well as videos that were in my Library prior to upgrading.
I'm not having any problems assigning keywords to photos.
Anyone else seen this behavior and/or have the ability to associate keywords in v9.4?
Is this a new feature or a bug?
Thanks,
Tom

For me too all keywords in the Keywords panel do not work on ".MPEG4" video files, but as a workaround, typing the keyword directly into the keywords brick in the Info pane, still assigns them correctly.

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