Separate Import settings for video & photos

I apprecate LR3's ability to import video files & manage their metadata. I find myself taking more & more video mixed in with my regular photos - usually on the same memory card. Unfortunately, I store video in a different location from photos. Would be nice if there was a simple way to distinguish video from photos within Import.
I can easily choose the correct destination drive/folders from the "Recent" drop-down list, but I have to first manually select/deselect just the photos or just the videos. Ideally, I could just set separate default destinations for photos & video separately, so it all happens automatically every time. But even just having some way to select only Photos, or only Videos, in Import would make things a lot quicker.
Is there some simple trick I've missed? Thanks!

Thanks - that's a good workaround, which allows for moving the files to their final destination after import.
This is really a feature request, I guess - so I posted one in the Feature Request forum. My request is really a special case of having better filter/selection criteria in the Import dialog. But since Video clips can't actually be edited in Lightroom, they usually have their own unique workflow - separate from still photos - which in my case includes different storage location, different backup strategy, etc.

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;ylt=AooGuxvheq40oC0etoPY8yvty6IX;ylv=3?qid=20090909143724AALIlSP
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