Videos from iPhone 4S poor quality in iPhoto

I have several critical video clips taken with my new iPhone 4S, and need to bring them to my MacBook Pro. They're short (20 seconds or so) and they look beautiful on the iPhone. E-mailing them won't work because that compresses them to a lower quality. When I bring them into iPhoto via sync, playback on the computer is horrible. The sound is fine, but the video skips and stops. Any idea on how I can save these clips at the full captured quality? I need to ultimately bring them into iMovie. This is urgent as the project is due.

That tells us that the problem is not related to your library but more widespread. 
Log into another user account on your Mac and see if you can launch iPhoto without crashing.  If you can't then a reinstall of the iPhoto application is indicated. To do so you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iPhoto" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder and from the /var/db/receipts/  folder,
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Then install iPhoto from the disk it came on originally.

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