Where should my videos go?

I recently upgraded my Hard Drive from 80 to 500Gb. In the past I have stored my video clips of my kids, from my cannon elph point and shoot camera, on an external hard drive, not on my Macbook hard drive. But, I find that I never see the video because of it being on an external drive. Now, since I have so much room on my internal hard drive, I am thinking it would be nice to be able to have all my videos in one place, where they could be viewed, edited and created in to a family movie, etc. I would like to move them to my internal drive, unless that is a bad idea>? Here is my question: should I put all the movies into iPhoto, where my photos are currently? Should I put all the movies into iMovie08? Should I buy iLife09 and put them in iMovie09 (is there a noticeable difference for a beginner between iMovie08 and iMovie09)? Should I wait for iMovie10? Should I try some other movie software that will be a good library for my video? It is only movies of my kids, I am not making a hightech hollywood type film. Just a dvd for the grandparents. Is there an application that I can use that will store and organize both movies and videos? Then everything is in one place? So, in a nutshell... where should I keep my videos? Please advise and thanks for listening.

Try user folder/Movies.

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