Need advice with video editing from iphoto to imovie, or something else.

ok, here's the deal. I have about 1tb of videos(in raw iphone straight to iphoto format), about 3k of them.  I took a few vids a day for a year or so. They are all in iphoto right now but i need to take each days vids and put them together and export that in a smaller format.  I need to do that for each day of the year.  But it's a nightmare trying to get the vids from iphoto to imovie.  Is there an easy way?  I don't want to do major work to them, i just want to put them all together and have 1 vid file.  So say I have 3 vids on jan 1st in iphoto, I need to move all 3 to another app, put them together, export the single file, keeping as much of the quality as I can, then I can delete the original raw vids and move that single file back to iphoto.
So instead of having events with lots of videos inside them, 1 event per day, 1 video.
any ideas on a quick and easy way to do this?

iMovie is the tool for that job and it's video so there are no "quick and easy ways", I'm afraid. The files are huge and it takes time.
What nightmare are you having getting the material from iPhoto to iMovie?
As there is a lot of repetition in the process you describe, have you considered using Automator to try and do some of the heavy lifting for you?
Regards
TD

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