IPhoto on Snow Leopard: importing videos or photos bigger than 1GB

Hi there, I use an iPad 3 and an iPhone 5 and 4S an in all of them I seem to not be able to import photos or videos bigger than 1GB to iPhoto (pre-installed) as it will keep waiting after I import all or selected files!
Any advice?

iPhoto has always had a problem with importing larged videos. For large videos connect the iPad/iPhone to your Mac and use Image Capture to upload them to the Desktop before importing into iPhoto.
OT

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