Seeing Videos in iPhoto

When I download video from my camera to my Mac, iPhoto "sees" the video as only a single photograph, not as a video. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Chris,
one question.
Do you see the iPhone videos together with your photos in one Album or Event on AppleTV?
On my AppleTV I can see only the photos, but not the videos in the same Album or Event.
Regards, Carsten

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    Hi Folks,
    I'm a brand new Mac user (3 days) so please go very easy on me!!
    I have searched using google and tried a few things so far as I know it's better to only come to forums as a last resort as most of the answers are already out there....Well I can't seem to find the answer to the question I have and would be very grateful if any of you seasoned folks could shed some light on a small issue I have...
    iPhoto has all my videos and photos which were taken using an iPod 4 and an iPhone 4. I can see all the videos and photos perfectly in iPhoto and they all play perfectly.
    iMovie is able to see the videos that have been imported to iPhoto that were taken on the iPod. Any videos that have been taken on the iPhone it can't see.
    It isn't an compatability issue as if I export a video from iPhoto to my desktop and then manually load that into iMovie, the video plays.
    I'm stumped......I have loads of videos swashing around my iPhoto account that I'm desperate to see and edit in iMovie, but it has only given me a fraction of those videos and they were all recorded on the iPod....
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    Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
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    Unfortunately I think this happens a lot to people and there's not a simple fix. As you discovered there is a workaround (export from iPhoto to the desktop, import into iMovie directly). But once the connection to iPhoto Videos in the Event Folder stops working, I haven't seen anyone write back to the group yet with a fix.
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  • I don´t see the iPhoto library in imovie, how can a i use the videos of iPhoto? Thank you

    I don´t see the iphoto library in imovie, how can i use the videos of iphoto, how can i get de library in imovie?
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  • How do I move videos from iphoto to imovie

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  • Is there any way to recover deleted video from iPhoto?

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    It is probably for the best. People that can see a lot of videos inside iPhoto are complaining about long start up times and other problems.
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  • How to compress a video in iPhoto to QuickTime?

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  • I updated imovie, which is now totally different.  I tried to import videos from iphotos, but the system is now stuck on "import" and it doesn't include iphotos.  Clicking on "close" doesn't work.  How do I get out of "import"?

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  • Published Videos from IPhoto to Gallery have sound but no video in browser

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