iMovie drop folder

I noticed the latest release of iMovie has a drop folder. At first I wasn't that excited but I wasn't quite sure what this was about so I did a bit of research. Turns out if you dump movie files in the right folder iMovie asks if you want to import them into your events next time it starts up. Wow.
So here's how it became more interesting for me.
I have a Panasonic HD video camera and all the stuff I capture on it imports to iMovie events onto my external media drive. I also have an iPhone 4 and this content is imported via iPhoto. Problem is as the iPhone camera improves I find I am using more and more to capture video and having all the footage in iPhoto is inconvenient to say the least when it comes time to edit. Sure, you can access our iPhoto library in iMovie but if it's an actual iMovie event it's easier to find and you get more control (tagging for one). So this is where the drop folder comes in. Instead of importing from the phone using iPhoto, fire up Image Capture instead (it's actually the app iPhoto leverages). I recommend you set it as the default application to launch for all your cameras in fact. In Image Capture you can sort files all sorts of ways to find the relevant stuff (file size is helpful to identify movies), select the files you wish to import, point the "Import to" menu to the iMovie Dropbox folder and you're away.

If you want to get fancy you can create an Image Capture plugin using Automator to streamline the process.