[Closed] Mac users - work flow for photo/video viewing and editing (Lightroom/iMovie)

Hi all,

Got a Mac (first Apple laptop), so figuring it all out, and trying to work out the best workflow for dealing with photos and videos.

Take photos on phone, camera, and GoPro, and same for videos (but mainly GoPro of course).

On Windows, I would manually copy the photo and video files into folders in Windows Explorer. I'd then import these into Lightroom if I wanted to edit the photos. Once edited, the photos would be exported into a new folder, and I'd then upload them from this folder onto Facebook etc. I could also then easily view just the edited photos in Explorer.

For videos, I would use whatever editing software I happen to be using to open the video files up and work on.

So what's the best way to do the same on a Mac?

I'm guessing don't bother using iPhoto? I'm thinking import everything off cameras with Lightroom into folders. Edit, export, and upload photos as before. One thing that this doesn't allow me to easily do is view just the edited photos - I either have to go through the folder of edited photos in Preview (if I'm not using iPhoto at all), or use tags in Lightroom to just view the edited photos (or reimport the edited folder to view in LR, even worse) - none of these options are slick at all.

I'm just using iMovie for editing videos for now - can I get that to just pull videos from where Lightroom imports them to, rather than having to import them into the iMovie Library, wasting space?

Any thoughts or tips would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Duane.