Videos in iPhoto and iMovie

arnoneh · arnoneh #1 (**permalink**)

09-22-2009, 01:07 AM

I noticed that when I plugged my camera into my new iMac, both iMovie and iPhoto wanted to import the videos. I let iPhoto import them as both apps seem to use the same term "events", thinking that they would store the videos in the same library. But since I cannot see the video's imported by iPhoto from iMovie, I guess they do not use the same library or storage object.

This leads me to believe that I should not let iPhoto import the videos at all in order to avoid duplication of the videos? Or is iMovie really only used for editing videos, as opposed to creating a library of videos?

Am I correct? Can someone shed some light on this? -harv

lemajr · lemajr #2 (**permalink**)

09-27-2009, 10:07 AM

I removed all special characters (in my case ') and renamed the event names to not include special characters. I quit completed out of iMovies and opened it back up. iMovies then prompts to create thumbnails (since the event name has changed) - which I accepted. All of my videos from iPhoto showed up in iMovies. Hope this works for you.

Lemajr

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arnoneh #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 21, 2009 Posts: 3	09-22-2009, 01:07 AM I noticed that when I plugged my camera into my new iMac, both iMovie and iPhoto wanted to import the videos. I let iPhoto import them as both apps seem to use the same term "events", thinking that they would store the videos in the same library. But since I cannot see the video's imported by iPhoto from iMovie, I guess they do not use the same library or storage object. This leads me to believe that I should not let iPhoto import the videos at all in order to avoid duplication of the videos? Or is iMovie really only used for editing videos, as opposed to creating a library of videos? Am I correct? Can someone shed some light on this? -harv
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lemajr #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 27, 2009 Posts: 1	09-27-2009, 10:07 AM I removed all special characters (in my case ') and renamed the event names to not include special characters. I quit completed out of iMovies and opened it back up. iMovies then prompts to create thumbnails (since the event name has changed) - which I accepted. All of my videos from iPhoto showed up in iMovies. Hope this works for you. Lemajr
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