IPhoto video download length limitation

Does iPhoto 5 have a limitation as to the length of a video it can download from my digital camera? Any video clip that is over about 2 minutes does not download to iphoto. Do any of the newer iPhotos fix this?

mike11717
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
There does seem to be a limitation based on the size of the file, though I've not seen it documented anywhere. And while there later versions of iPhoto are definitely improved in many way over v5, there is no change in this. The workaround is to use Image Capture (in your Applications folder) to move the files to the desktop and then import them from there.
Regards
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