Open video in iPhoto

My 2008 videos imported and previousely played in iPhoto will not play.  A window drops down saying "A necessary data reference could not be found."  Any answers??

What created the movie/video?  How did it get imported into iPhoto?

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    iMovie can access those movies that are inside iPhoto. Just look in the Event pane of iMovie and click on the iPhoto icon:
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    I also thought I should download future photos to my Canon programming that comes with EOS cameras and edit and then decide which photos to save to iPhoto library and which to save only to my archival HD?
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