Organization of movies imported from iPhoto

I am just a beginner with iMovie, and wanting to start working with movies taken of my kids. Several months ago I set up iMovie for the first time by importing all my movies from iPhoto. I'm really confused as to the organization of my clips in the clips pane. Some of my older movies are under headings that match the names of the corresponding iPhoto events in which they are found. However, the more recent ones are found under the dates they were imported or last edited. To me this is a huge hindrance to wanting to even begin to learn to use iMovie - that is, shouldn't my movies by default match the events in iPhoto from which they were imported? I don't really care to have them organized by the date they were imported into iPhoto from my camera.
I did some digging around and figured out that the headings in the clips pane match the folders in which they are found in the iPhoto package, but obviously am not going to touch that, for fear of damaging my iPhoto library.
The only solution I can find is to use the event library to manually create an event for each iphoto event. I just don't get why iMovie doesn't use the iPhoto event names automatically in the clips pane, and if that's something I can fix.

Now, when I drag a movie from iPhoto to iMovie, the video clip doesn't have any sound.
Your Sony stores its video content as multiplexed MPEG VX (MPEG-1) files which are "playback" only compatible with QT and QT applications. To retain the audio content you must use an MPEG-based, third-party application like MPEG Streamclip (free) to convert these files before importing to iMovie for editing.

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Also, when I click on the Help->iMovie HD Help, it starts to open help, but then closes itself. Bug, or do I need to re-download iMovie, or... purchase a higher level of iMovie? If I can't even get the Help function to work, what good is this piece of software?
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Now, when I drag a movie from iPhoto to iMovie, the video clip doesn't have any sound.
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You are right, that is how it works. However, I am looking at a figure on page 36 of the Adobe "Classroom in a Book" training workbook that shows an iPhoto dialog box where you can make choices. Wonder where that figure came from. After seeing it, I thought maybe I had missed making a preference setting somewhere along the line. Thanks for your response.

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Does anyone know a good way to transfer the iPhoto metadata associated with a movie in the iPhoto Library to iTunes? IE: I want to import a movie stored in my iphoto library to itunes so I can watch it on my apple tv. But I want the description, title, and keywords that I associated with that movie when I organized it in iphoto to come over to the itunes entry for that movie as well. Any way to do that?
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So I have a bunch of movies that are organized in the iphoto library. These are movies that come in from my point-and-shoot camera, my iphone 4, and my digital SLR. I want to watch these movies on my apple TV (2nd Generation).
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I understand that the metadata is stored in an iPhoto database somehow, and not actually written to the movie files themselves, but you would think that iTunes would be able to access the iPhoto database somehow. . .

But the description and title that you enter for a movie in iPhoto are clearly stored in some sort of iPhoto-only database, even if that metadata is not actually inserted into the movie file itself (.mov, .avi, whatever). Why can't iTunes access that database?
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It should not be a serious flaw, since this something that you only do ONCE. You don't want to use both organizer and iphoto. You'll have two sets of photos with no knowledge of each other. Import from iphoto is not meant to be a regular use item, only for the one time after you've decided organizer is what you prefer. It's fine to make a small test catalog while you decide whether iphoto or organizer suits you better, but to keep on using both is going to make you crazy in short order.

Failed import from iPhoto to Aperture - what's the best solution?

Hello
After some years of using iPhoto I recently upgraded to Aperture 3.2.2. In connection with that and before opening Aperture, I bought a new external hard drive and moved my iPhoto library to it, following Apple's instructions on how to move an iPhoto library to a different drive.
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My idea now, subject to any advice anyone can give me, is to move the iPhoto library back to the Mac's hard drive (there is enough room, but little spare), delete everything on the external drive, format the external drive to Mac OS Extended, re-organise some of the iPhoto events, 'delete' the 'contents' of the Aperture library (without affecting of course the contents of the iPhoto library) and try again (possibly by importing the iPhotos this time on an event by event basis).
If there is nothing in your Aperture library that you need to keep, that is a good strategy.
But some suggestions:
Before you move your iPhoto Library from its current location (which will render the Aperture library useless, because it is referencing inside iPhoto), check if you accidentally have imported any images as managed into Aperture: create a smart album with the rule "File status is managed" at the top level of the library albums. This way you will see, if you have any images only in Aperture, that need exporting, before you delete the library.
Also right now the best option to import from iPhoto into Aperture is by importing complete libraries, not single iPhoto events or albums. If you import Libraries, Aperture can combine the iPhoto Originals and the edited versions into "Master-Version" pairs and save considerable space. This is only possible by importing the complete library, for more deatails see this recent thread:
Correct Answer Re: Aperture Loses iPhoto Edited Images
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I am new to Photoshop and just installed Photoshop Elements 11 on my Mac OS X. Everytime I try to import photos from iPhoto the import process will go through until it is almost finished, then a notification will pop up saying that the import failed. Once I click "OK" on that dialogue box a new box will pop up saying that a few (6) pictures were unable to be imported for various reasons, but that the rest of my pictures were imported. I am then unable to find any pictures anywhere in Photoshop Elements. I have tried to import photos 7 or 8 times with the same result everytime. How can I fix this so that I can begin to use Photoshop?

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You want to save, not save as in PSE when you do this. If you see the Save As window it's not going to work, so you need to save your changes without changing the name or format of the image. Then iphoto will remember your latest saved edits + the original file, although you have to lose the edited version to get back to the original. You may need to go to the editor preferences>Saving files and set On First Save to save over existing to make this work.
2. Export the photos from iphoto, use file>Open in the editor to open the photos for editing, make any changes you like and then re-import the edited photos back to iphoto as new files. The advantage of this is that you can save as many different states of your image as you like, and you always have access to your original photo.

Importing from iphoto, always get "import failed".

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I have 87,0000 pictures.
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I check the disk, and the files are there but no pictures in the catalog.
I try to remove the files that it says are damaged. I have done that. I still get "import failed" with no report of why.
I see many other posts with this same issue, and no good solution.
I tried to create a new catalog, no difference.
Help!
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I have had Elements for the mac for 3 months now and still can't use it!

I did the "from iPhoto" and got the problem listed above. I want the whole library transferred.
I am looking for a solution to the elements defect listed above. If I import the library, and it has a problem with a single photo, it should not import that photo, but do the rest. It is not doing that, it is failing and not importing anything.
This is especially frustrating since it take hours to import the library, then when it is 95% done, it fails and imports nothing.

After importing from iPhoto, how would you eliminate the photos?

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I have backed up the photos in iPhoto to an external hard drive in case Aperture blows up on me and I need to go back to iPhoto. But now that I have done that, what is the suggested way to get all those pictures out of iPhoto? so I can get back that disk space.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what's wrong with simply deleting and then emptying the trash?

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Thanks for the questions TD!
Mac Pro OS X 10.9.2
Ipad is 7.0.6 and the videos are still on my Ipad and I can play them on the Ipad. This is where they were originally created, on my Ipad, March 2013.
Iphoto '09, version 8.1.2
No, the videos do not play in Iphoto. They have the camera icon on the lower left identifying them as a video and the seconds or minutes, as the as the case may be on the lower right, ex. 0:23, and also identified as a Quicktime movie with size information, ex. 480x640, 12.2 MB.
Some of the videos were taken in portrait and some in landscape, same problem regardless of orientation.
I have videos created before this date and after which play fine and also which exported with no problem. Haven't tried all of them because I have a lot of videos but just a few to test.
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During the normal course of editing, all of the photos that were in the movie were overprinted with a random movie clip still. The thumbnails in the project window still show the intended photo, but only the new clip still will show during playback. By right-clicking the photo and doing "Show in Finder", the correct .jpg file is referenced. When I try to drag the correct photo back in from the photo media window, a photo will be brought in, but it will be one that appears a few spots away in the list from the intended one. The thumbnail remains the correct photo. I believe something has become corrupted in my iMovie project that will not show the correct photo, even though the program is internally pointing to the correct photo. Very frustrating, as I have lost many days of careful editing. Made a copy of the project and have tried many things, to no avail.
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The distortion/blurriness may arise due to the size of the photo being imported from iPhoto.
iMovie HD 6 appears to have problems handling very large photos - these should be resized (not cropped) in iPhoto before being imported to iMovie HD. The process is described in this post by Karl Petersen on 14/04/2007:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4389924#4389924
Karl describes the process very thoroughly (as always) in Point 3 of his post.
Doing as Karl suggests may not, of course, help in your particular case but it's certainly worth a try.
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You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
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Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import.
 Cheers, Tom

Anyone have a real answer? Imovie 11/snowleo and now imovie does not import from iphoto..

.. anyone have a real answer? Imovie 11/snowleo and now imovie does not import from iphoto

romantiq_rik wrote:
Karsten, I mentioned "IPHOTO to IMOVIE" photo transfer.
In fact, you did not.
We had NO idea if it was a photo or a pocket-camera movie you were trying to import from iPhoto.
You also didn't describe what happens when you try to import.
romantiq_rik wrote:
My pics are already in "IPHOTO" i want to import them into "IMOVIE" and although the
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Please take a few seconds to proof read your posts and also make then easy to read (no large letters, no underlining, no double line breaks in the middle of a sentence etc).

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