Where to store my recorded videos

Question

I'm new to Mac and currently all of my recorded videos are stored in "Movies" (not to be confused with iMovie). I noticed there is a place in iPhoto called "iPhoto videos".  Where is the best place to store my recorded videos? Not sure if there is any benefit in moving them all to iPhoto videos.
Thank you.
Cassandra.

Answer 1

GroovyDreamyFab,
Even if video is in your iPhoto library, you can still import it into an iMovie event without deleting it from your iPhoto library. This is how you do that:
1. Open iMovie.
2. Choose File > Import > Movies...
3. In the pop-up Import window, choose "Photos" from the Media section of the pane on the left-hand side.
4. Up near the top, under iPhoto, click "Events".
5. There should be thumbnails of all of your iPhoto events. Select one that has video from your iPhone that you would like to import into iMovie and double-click it.
6. Hold down the command key and highlight all of the videos from the event that you would like to import.
7. Choose the drive for importing, an event name, and make sure the "Copy files" bullet is selected.
8. Click the "Import" button.
So, it is perfectly OK for video to exist in both the iPhoto Videos section of iMovie and a separate event in iMovie. Technically, you don't HAVE to import your video into a separate iMovie event, but I find it way easier and faster to have the video sorted into events, rather than having to scroll through tons of videos in "iPhoto Videos".
Hope this helps,
O.C.