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The Mac OS X iPhoto application can be used to catalogue videos as well as photos, and I know I have a lot of videos in amongst my 20,000-odd photos. But how to find them? Create a “Smart Album” with the criteria “Photo is Movie” (which seems to violate basic rules of physics, but it’s how it works):

An iPhoto Smart Album that includes all my videos

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 4:00pm
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x on June 27, 2009
Thanx a lot ! I just search for a day how to to this ! x
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Ashleigh Rohde on November 3, 2011

THanks so much!!! That took 2 seconds! and then I made an album that was "photos - is not - movies" so that I have all my photos on one place as well! Thanks!!!

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Jonathan Franzone on July 4, 2009
What version of iPhoto is that in? I am running iPhoto version 6.0.6 and I don’t have a Photo option in the left hand drop-down box. Kind of depressing because I was really wanting to have an easy way to catalogue all of my video files.
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Anonymous on August 11, 2009
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Siggi's picture
Siggi on November 30, 2009
Thanks! finely!
Philip's picture
Philip on April 4, 2010
OF COURSE… a movie is nothing but a bunch of photos, just as the internet is a bunch of tubes. Thanks for figuring that one out.
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Steve L on August 20, 2010

Just what I needed. Thank you very much!

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Vedavyas on September 7, 2010

nice post

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Scott in Wisocnsin on September 18, 2010

whew- you saved me like 1 hour of mindless pegging after our 7000 photo trip to Italy. THANK YOU!!!!

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Shahzad Khan on November 3, 2010

Hey thanks a bunch, you helped me move 100 GBs of videos out of iPhoto :)

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Chris1983dx11 on December 12, 2010
if you set iphoto options to sort as : by keyword. It will separate your photos and videos in every Event in iphoto. As long as your photos and videos do NOT have keywords that you typed in personally, Each event will display your photos first and then at the end of your “Event” the videos in that section will be at the bottom.
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Lipi Bagshaw on February 28, 2011
Thank you so much - great help!!!
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Michael Kessel on August 11, 2011
Very Helpful - Thanks!
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waz on August 31, 2011
can I use the word “Love”? i love you man
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JOSE MAGNO on September 2, 2011
THANKS A MILLION!!!!WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO PEOPLE LIKE US(NOT TECH SAVVY)IF SOMEONE LIKE YOU IS NOT AROUND.YOU JUST SAVED ME FROM A MIGRAINE!!!
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shaan deen on September 9, 2011
actually this was AWESOME to find. you solved it so simply. exactly what i wanted and i’ve saved COUNTLESS needless hours.. big thank you. ps. i’m using lion and iPhoto 11.
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Eric Townsend on September 13, 2011
I consider myself as quite savvy, but I’ve missed out on this for years. So big thanks.
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Iain Ferguson on October 8, 2011
Yet another thanks for pointing this out to me. Was able to quickly find out the total size of Videos and Raw photos in my iPhoto Library. Not as much as I thought :-)
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Andy on November 16, 2011

Thank you for that wonderful tip.  Just spent all evening watching all the videos we took of our baby who was born 15 weeks premature - he came home a year ago today and is now doing great.  I'd always had to search through 'events' to find them.

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Franx on November 17, 2011

Thanks a whole lot!

Ab's picture
Ab on November 26, 2011

THANK YOU!!!

Saved MUCHO TIME!

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Michaek on December 3, 2011

Man! I've been looking for this solution for ages!! Thank you a million times over!!!

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newmacuser on December 4, 2011

awesome !!! thanks loads

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Ellen on December 10, 2011

So easy, thank you!

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Glen on December 25, 2011
You rock! Thanks for this brilliant suggestion!
Paul W's picture
Paul W on December 28, 2011
Thanks so much for this - really easy when you know how!

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