Using iMovie to prep videos for inclusion in iPhoto - right choice?

I like to use iPhoto to view my photos and video clips, since it automatically shows things in chronological order, and with iPhoto 09 it interleaves photos and video clips nicely. Works great with my current digicam which sources both stills and video clips.
I have a bunch of older video on miniDV, imported from miniDV camcorder into iMovie, with all its date/time information. These are currently in .DV file format on my hard drive.
What is the easiest way to get these clips into iPhoto? The DV clips are huge, so I tried making an iMovie project (painful to do this for each clip separately .. but iMovie image stabilization probably makes it worthwhile) and found the exported video has lost the original date/time info.
Help? suggestions?
Is there a way to put date/time information onto the exported movie so that iPhoto will use it?
Thanks!

I agree with Sheryl for producing movies.
For viewing movies, I still would not use iPhoto. I would use iTunes for the ease of cover flow, organization, and metadata. Also ease of transferring to AppleTV, iPhone, iPod, etc. Also, iTunes makes it easy to view movies on your Mac through Front Row.
iPhoto has one advantage. If you want to do movies on MobileMe that are password protected, storing movies in iPhoto is the way to go.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2279
iMovie (2013): Share from “iMovie” Theater
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