Sorting (separating) photos from video clips in iphoto 5

Hi!
I have 15,000 clips in my iphoto and time to trim her down. We use little canon powershots, which also takes this little video clips. Kids have put a lot in there. 4 years, 2004-2007
Everything is sorted by date, of course. IS THERE A WAY to separate out (so I can view and store or trash) the many video clips from the photos?
Currently, I am just scrolling down photo by photo and trying to catch the video clips as I see them.
I am looking for an easier way to put all these clips (vid) in one place
JON

Hi JON,
Make a Smart album with the criteria of "keyword" is "Movies"
Now you can see all the movies in one album. From there you can view the movies, trash the ones you don't want, drag the ones you do want to the desktop and put them all in a Movies folder and put that in your users Movie folder or burn that folder to DVD to safely store the movies.

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