Where to store your videos (2014): iPhoto vs iTunes vs iMovie?

I used to store all my home videos in iPhoto, because I think It's better to save videos and pictures together in the same event.
But now that we have a tab in iTunes for 'home videos' and we also have 'theater' tab in iMovie.... Where do you think is better to save your home videos?
The idea is to watch them later in AppleTV, iPads, etc.
Thank you!

Open iPhoto and iMovie. Find the video is iPhoto and control click to get the contextual menu. There is an option to locate in Finder. Click on that and a Finder window opens with the video file highlighted. Drag that file to iMovie to import. After importing you can delete the one in iPhoto to avoid duplication.
As for events, iMovie automatically lists them by day. By default a event is a day but you can change it anyway you prefer.

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Where to store your videos (2014): iPhoto vs iTunes vs iMovie?

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