Find Videos in iPhoto

Peter Rukavina

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

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Submitted by Jonathan Franzone on

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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.

Submitted by Philip on

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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.

Submitted by Scott in Wisocnsin on

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

Submitted by Chris1983dx11 on

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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.

Submitted by JOSE MAGNO on

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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!!!

Submitted by shaan deen on

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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.

Submitted by Iain Ferguson on

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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 :-)

Submitted by Ashleigh Rohde on

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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!!!

Submitted by Andy on

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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&#39d always had to search through &#39events&#39 to find them.

Submitted by Jorge Gonzalez on

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How can I know the disk location.  Fo rsome reason they do not appear in iMovie and I need to transfer them.  Thanks

Submitted by Colin on

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Good job, thanks!  

But, does anyone know how i can get the videos to Apple TV2 ??  I can get the photos on TV2 okay but the videos don’t show up.  They are MJPEG on iPhoto, & if i drop one to the desktop it becomes an AVI.  I have ‘include videos’ selected on iTunes ‘Advanced’ > Choose Photos to Share’ but it makes no difference (I can get Movies ok) …. can’t drop these MPJEG or AVI  files into iTunes.

 

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Submitted by Glen on

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The way I do it, which I hope isn’t the only way, b/c IMO apple should have the Atv2 intuitively pick up all video when u have home sharing turned on in iTunes, is to drag the movies into “movies” under iTunes. Then, when I pull up “movies” under “computers” on the atv2 it has them mixed in. Like I said, this can’t possibly be the way it’s supposed to be done, but it works. If anyone has an automatic way, please share ;)

Submitted by philldog on

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I am trying to use iphoto as a video clip catalog, building smart folders for keywords I add. I use 4 second clips, that requiring looping on playback to understand their content (medical ultrasound clips). Any idea how to loop the video player in iphoto as one can do with quicktime and vlc, etc.?

Submitted by Zoya on

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Thank you!! Now since all the video/movies have been isolated, is there a way I can delete them from the new smart album? For some reason I have a lot of duplicate videos and I would like to delete them but no matter which way I go about it, it won’t delete. I was thinking of selection all and then creating a new event of all the videos but after I did that, I don’t know where the event went… or if it was ever created! ANY TIPS ARE MUCH APPRECIATED!

Submitted by KonaGal on

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WOW ! thanx so much for this info ! 4 many years finding my movies has been a pain in iPhoto amongst tens of thousands of photos……now using your advise my life is Easier and i’ll be able to delete and keep which videos easily …..mahalo nui loa

Submitted by Louk Goldberg on

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My iPhoto has a mart folder option, but no photo or movie selections in the drop down menu.. Please help.

Submitted by Larry on

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Does anyone know how to sort them by size?
I’d like to get rid of the large ones but I don’t know how to sort my .mov files by size.
Thanks!

Submitted by Kelly T on

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Hi
I am not tech savvy at all so this tip was most helpful in finding all my video files.
Only one problem is I have taken videos since April but they are not appearing when I did this step. It seems to stop in April
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Submitted by Jay on

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Thank you! I had been trying to figure that out for hours! Another poster had said to create a smart album with “keyword” movies and I had no idea what he was talking about. This made it very simple.

Submitted by Pfladuke on

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Great, one other thing how can i then sub catorgise these vids by length of them. i.e i want to weed out the videos that are 1.2.3. second long?

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