Movies from iPhoto do NOT appear in iMovie

When I click on "iPhoto Videos" nothing is displayed, although I even made a Smart Folder in iPhoto that had the keyword "movie" just to prove to myself I do have movies in there.
My movies are in MPEG-1 format, and play fine in iPhoto. I can't import them manually because iMovie blocks going in to the iPhoto folder in the import window directly (kinda neat safety feature... as long as the "iPhoto Videos" feature works... which it doesn't)
Anyone got around this one yet?

Hi Bruce -
I have the same problem. (Your video clips must be from a Sony digital camera - they only use MPEG-1 muxed video).
There are several things you could do.
1) buy a different brand digital camera (Canon uses AVI - which is fully compatible with iMovie) for all future video clips
2) complain to Sony that muxed video will not work with iMovie.
(Muxed means the audio and video are compressed together - so after being convereted to iMovie, the video will play, but the audio is thrown out.)
3) complain to Apple that all Sony's video are not supported in iMovie.
4) get a third party converter, and batch convert them all to MPEG4 (you can convert to DV, too, but in my clips, DV increased the file sizes 10x). I use MPEG Streamline. Free and quick (about an hour to convert 50 or so short clips) The biggest headache is that the date and time after conversion is wrong. Grrrrrr Now I have to go back and reset the dates manually for 12 months worth of video clips. Grrrrrr again.
5) Then, dump the newly converted and date-corrected clips into iPhoto, and they will all show up the next time you open iMovie (after a "conversion" process that takes a while.)
I hope that helps!
I might have gotten some of the details wrong.... hopefully some of the smart people reading this post will correct any errors I've made!
thanks -
Holly

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