Step 1: Import into iPhoto
When you plug your iPhone into your Mac you can import both stills and video into iPhoto. You can also label the Event at this stage.
Step 2: Under one roof
Both videos and stills are stored in one place – the iPhoto Library. You can copy this to an external hard drive to create a backup of your clips and photos.
Step 3: Get smart
Go to New>Smart Album. Set the fields as shown in our grab and click OK. The Smart Album lets you see all the video clips in your iPhoto library.
Step 4: Generate thumbnails
Quit iPhoto and open iMovie. It will be aware that you’ve imported new clips into the iPhoto Library and will ask you to create thumbnails. Click on Now.
Step 5: Process thumbnails
iMovie will then wade through the newly imported clips in the iPhoto Library and generate thumbnails, so you can easily recognise each clip’s content.
Step 6: Browse clips
Go to iMovie’s Event Library and click on iPhoto Videos. All the iPhoto clips will appear in the Event browser. You can view and edit them like any iMovie event.
Step 7: External storage
To save space you can create a new iPhoto Library on an external hard drive. Press Alt when opening iPhoto and select Create New. Choose an external drive.
Step 8: Load in clips
You can import new clips and stills into this external iPhoto Library. When you quit iPhoto and open iMovie, it will automatically load clips from this new iPhoto Library.
Step 9: Multiple drives
You can store clips in iPhoto Libraries on multiple drives, which stops your clips from being stored in one basket. iMovie will access clips from the iPhoto Library.
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