My digital camera -- like most non-SLR digital cameras these days -- captures decent video with 640x480 resolution at 30fps. It stores this video in AVI files using the Motion JPEG codec, so the quality is really good while the filesize is pretty scary.
Over the years I've collected TONS of video clips with this camera, and now that I have an iMac, I'd like to store, organize, tag, edit, and manipulate these clips properly. Question is -- should I import them into iPhoto, or into iMovie?
iPhoto allows me to import a series of nested folders with one click, and lets me organize them into events. But when I access those videos in iMovie, the clips are all displayed within one folder and with incorrect dates (see this thread). iMovie allows me to create multiple "events" of these videos, but forces me to tediously import one folder at a time. Neither gives (any?) options for editing the date of the movie clip, or adding tags or meta-data like people, location, etc.
Surely I can't be the only person who wants to organize digital video just as elegantly as music in iTunes, and photos in iPhoto?
Over the years I've collected TONS of video clips with this camera, and now that I have an iMac, I'd like to store, organize, tag, edit, and manipulate these clips properly. Question is -- should I import them into iPhoto, or into iMovie?
iPhoto allows me to import a series of nested folders with one click, and lets me organize them into events. But when I access those videos in iMovie, the clips are all displayed within one folder and with incorrect dates (see this thread). iMovie allows me to create multiple "events" of these videos, but forces me to tediously import one folder at a time. Neither gives (any?) options for editing the date of the movie clip, or adding tags or meta-data like people, location, etc.
Surely I can't be the only person who wants to organize digital video just as elegantly as music in iTunes, and photos in iPhoto?