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I was excited to hear about the movie support in iPhoto 5, but it turns out it's just not any good. Here are the problems I've had with it tonight:

• When you double click on a movie, it opens in QuickTime. iPhoto doesn't have any built in support for trimming my movies, so this finally spurred me to buy QuickTime Pro for the third time.
• So I enter my new QuickTime Pro registration key and start editing the movie in QuickTime pro, assuming that it's going to work in the same was as PhotoShop does as an external editor for photos. In particular, I was expecting that I'd be able to hit "save" and it'd save a new copy of my movie, preserving my original movie in the process. Nope. It prompts me where to save the movie, and it doesn't automatically import it.
• After tracking down where I just saved the movie and dragging it into iPhoto. Unfortunately, iPhoto apparently doesn't recognize QuickTime Pro 7's default save format, and informs me that "The following files could not be imported (they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data)."
• So I finally figure out which format iPhoto can import and I get all my movies edited and ready to export to my Gallery, but the export module will only export photos. Apparently I'm going to have to manually upload each of my movies to my gallery if I want them there.

Though now that I look at the iPhoto product page, they seem to only claim the only new feature with regard to movies "Import video clips from your digital camera," which seems accurate since I ran into problems with editing, importing from the file system, and exporting.

Needless to say, this isn't exactly motivating me to finish sorting through my New York and Las Vegas pictures for posting.

iPhoto feedback goes here.