How to show all your videos in iPhoto for Mac

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You’d assume that there’s a default folder in iPhoto that shows all your movies, like in the iOS 7 Photos app. But there isn’t.

It’s easy to set one up using the magic of Smart Albums. Here’s how:

  1. in iPhoto, head over to File – New Smart Album
  2. give it a title (like Movies)
  3. create a condition: Filename – ends with – mov
  4. voila!

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For the nerds among us, what’s happening here is that your database is queried by something called a Predicate. Those are conditions that return results based on conditions  like

  • begins with
  • contains
  • ends with
  • is / is not

This is how they create things like “all pictures from London” or “all pictures from November”. It’s genius!

Now go and put it to good use.



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