Limited quantities of Photos library images & videos

A big drawback I have discovered when trying to access your new Photos library in iMovie is that if your are optimizing your hard drive space, iMovie will only show you pictures and videos that are actually on your hard drive. Put another way, it doesn't seem to pull any content from iCloud to use in iMovie projects. You have to manually download any media (in the Photos app or otherwise) you want to use before you can use it in iMovie or see it in your Photos Library section in the iMovie 'Libraries' sidebar.  This was a little confusing to me at first, so hopefully this helps someone, and brings this issue to Apple's attention.

Interesting.  When using media from the library of another application like iTunes, iPhoto etc. iMovie links to that library and does not make a copy.  This would be a problem for items in the cloud since the access time would probably be too slow for iMovie.  However it could make a local copy but apparently it does not. 
Please note that this a user's forum.  I you want to raise an issue with Apple use this link:   http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Geoff.

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