Exporting Video in iMovie 5 (at the library)

Several of you have tried editing at the library with what could only be called limited success. The version of iMovie at the library is iMovie 5. You may want to look at Atomic Learning (see the syllabus) for help files. To share (export) a file for YouTube the way we have been doing in class do the following:

File | Share

Select QuickTime from the icons and select "Expert Setting" from the "Compress movie for" menu. 

Click "Share"

Select where you want your movie to go and the title.

In the "Export" section, select "Movie to MPEG-4"

(you may be able to skip this next part) 

I usually also click on the options button and set the video size to 320x240 QVGA--you may not need to do that. If you want to drop your file size a bit, you can go into the audio section in options and set your audio to "mono." This puts your voice on both the left and right channels when you export. Click "Okay" when you are done.

(end optional settings)

Click save.

I am also checking to see if we can get iMovie 6 on a couple of systems, but this will help with the export issues.

UPDATE: The workstations in the animation lab have iMovie 6 (the version we are using in the lab). They also have 30" monitors--way cool. There should not be a problem editing in those rooms.