Why Store Your Videos In iPhoto, When You Have iMovie?

Is there any reason for storing/importing your digital camera movies into iPhoto, when you use iMovie? The only reason I can see is, it's quicker and easier to import them into iPhoto, along with your photos. But really, it doesn't make much sense them being in iPhoto, mainly because iPhoto can't play video.

I will simply add that the preference to use iMovie or iPhoto probably has a lot to do with how you shot videos and what you do with them.
For me, I have a lot of old Analog 8mm/Hi8 and then Digital8 tapes I have been importing and editing with iMovie for yeas now. I also now use a Flip MinoHD video recorder which works very nicely with iMovie. In all cases, I often do some bits of editing and iMovie is a natural choice for that and also is now a gosh dang swell cataloging application for all your videos.
That said, many people don't use a camcorder, only take occasional movie clips with their point & shoot digital camera (many of which make pretty good video these days) and never do any editing. So for those people, iPhoto is a natural choice to store the small handful of short clips they take in any given year that are never edited and occasionally emailed to relatives as is. iMovie is overkill for them and they don't need a separate app to store their 5 or 8 clips they took over the past year, 80% of them on that one vacation in August.
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