Any way to find / select videos in iPhoto of a duration range?

For some reason I have a bunch of video clips in my iPhoto library that are 0, 1, 2, and 3 seconds long. The 0-second long ones I can't explain. the other ones were probably somebody forgot the camera was on video mode and tried to snap a picture only to realize they were shooting video.


I need a way to sort / filter / select videos in my iPhoto library so I can delete them.


I've tried making a Smart Album, but the smart album filtering is too simple for me to create what I need. I can make the album select all my videos, but then there's no way for it to select all videos of a certain time / duration length (like 0 to 3 seconds long). I also can't sort the contents of a smart album by time / duration or by file size.


So if I have all these 0 to 3 second movies in my iPhoto library, peppered throughout, how can I delete them instead of going through manually?


p.s. I'm using iPhoto '11 on the latest Snow Lepoard version.

iMac Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 4GB RAM, FCE 4

Posted on Aug 23, 2011 1:45 PM

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Aug 24, 2011 12:34 PM in response to Old Toad

So I guess I'm down to going through about 2,500 video clips in iPhoto one-by-one manually. Awesome!


What's really great about it is that there's no way to delete a video / photo inside a smart folder. So I have to come up with some kind of way to sift through 33,000 items in my iPhoto library, pick out the videos and delete the one's that are very short.


What year is this? 2011? hmmmmm


p.s. Any thought on if Automator will help me?

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