Using digital camera with ibook

i have a nikon coolpix 5600 and i cant get it to come up onthe desktop.
my computer recognizes it, when i plug it into the computer (via usb) it automatically opens iphoto to upload the pictures, but it doesnt come up on the desktop or anything. i want it to so that i could upload movies from the camera.
are there any preferences that i'm supposed to set? or is this just going to always be like this and i not be able to use the movie function.
the camera came with a program (picture project) and that used to upload/organize the photos and videos, but it ran very slow and would crash all ther time, so i stopped using and uninstalled it in favor of iphoto.
any advice?

Which version of iPhoto do you have? Version 5 should import movies as well as pictures. You can also use the Image Capture application (in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder) to download the movies and pictures individually.
-Doug

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