Hi guys, in today's video we're going to talk about how to export a video in imovie, so
let's get started.
*Music playing* Now we prepared a imovie project that is already to go, so we've got our video
down in the project area here all ready for export.
So, to export our video, we want to navigate up to the right hand corner, up here, and
there we'll see the share button.
You can see it's a box with the arrow pointing upwards, we want to click that.Now one thing
I'll point out right at this stage, is you’ll see there is a variety of options presented
to us in this little window that appears.
Almost always you'll probably want to export directly to a file even if you do intend to
put your video on one of these other services.
So, if you want to upload to youtube or facebook, you would export a file first and then upload
to one of these other platforms.
This just gives you the maximum flexibility and reduces potential headaches with connecting
imovie to one of these services.
So having said that, let's click on file, and you’ll see this window appear on your
screen.
So starting right at the beginning here, we can adjust the title, so we can change, “My
Movie” to “Something Interesting” and description to “Something even more interesting”.
Tags are something you may or may not want to use, but they can be useful in managing
your files in the finder.
So, we’ve seen how to title and describe our video, let's look now at how to effect
the file size and video quality.
First of all we can see that we have, video and audio as an option, but we can also export
our video as audio only.
This might be useful if we wanted to upload a podcast version of a video for example.
We also have the ability here to choose the resolution, right now for this video we have
these three choices.
If you do have 4K video, which imovie does now support, you will see 4K as an option
here, but in this case we don't, so we don't see that option.
The next two options are in respect to quality, so depending which level we chose here, this
will affect the file size, which we can see noted under the preview on the left hand side
here and it may also affect the time it takes to export the video.Now we can see that when
set to best there is a substantial difference, we go from 168.1 MB for high to 986.5 MB for
best.
In general for most applications you'll be fine to stick with high.
If you really want to get into it, you can select custom and then modify the bit rate
here, for most users this is probably not going to be useful and you'll be best to stick
with the preset.
For compression we can chose whether we want the faster compression, so if we want the
export to take less time or if we want it to be of a higher quality.
If you’ve got the time and the computing power, meaning a fast computer, you probably
just want to select better quality.
This isn’t generally going to affect the file size, but the computer will do a more
thorough job of exporting the video, giving you a better result.
Once you have your preferences they way you want them, you can click next.
Imovie will ask us where we want to save our video, in our case we'll stick to putting
it on the desktop, save, and the export begins.
If we click on this little circle here, we can actually see the progress imovie is making
in exporting our video, it will also give us a time estimate, in this case not very
long, less than a minute before the video is done exporting.
You'll see that when the movie is done exporting there will be a notification on the top right
hand side of your screen.
This can be useful if you have left imovie while the video is exporting, which you'd
probably want to do if the movie is taking a half hour to an hour or more and then you'll
know as soon as your video is done exporting.
We can dismiss that notification, minimize imovie and on the desktop we will find our
finished video, all ready to play or share with our friends.
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