Storing video clips in iPhoto

I'm new to the Mac world, so pardon my ignorance.. I have about 250 video clips that I've taken on my digital camera that I currently have stored in iPhoto. I recently purchased an Apple TV to view photos and videos on my TV. In order to view the video clips on Apple TV, I had to add the videos to my iTunes library. Now when I go into the finder, I see that I've got a duplicate of each and every video - 1 stored in iPhoto, and 1 stored in iTunes. Is this really the best way to manage my video files? I thought about deleting all of the videos from my iPhoto library and just leaving them in iTunes, but I've noticed in iTunes there's no way to see the original creation date of the video... only "date modified".
I guess being new to Mac, I'm really not sure what best practices are when it comes to file management. I would have thought that I could leave the videos in one central library/location on the hard disk, and just have iTunes and iPhoto read from there.
Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Ah video clips from Point and Shoot cameras - the unloved step children of the digital family. Video editors don’t really want to know because they are so compressed they don’t edit well, photo organisers don’t want to know because they a: aren’t photos and b: don’t have the basic metadata to store information like date taken and so on.
My advice: Rename the files to include the date taken: So, Our Party Jan 1, 2009 as a file name and store them in iTunes. Why? Because iTunes is where you’re going to get most use from them.
Regards
TD

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