NOTE: This step may be slightly different for different versions of iMovie. In the upper right-hand corner of the window click the button with a box with and arrow sticking out of it and then click 'File'. In the menu bar of your computer click File Share File. In the menu, choose the settings you want. Take one last look at the movie you've produced in Apple iMovie: If your movie is ready to go, you can share it to with an audience, in a suitable format for the device you'll use to view it. The iMovie Share menu gives you several options: iTunes: Select this option if you plan on. You can create as many folders as you like to organize your projects. Open the Project Library. Choose File New Folder. The File menu appears in a light gray bar across the top of your computer screen. If New Folder is dimmed (can't be chosen), click anywhere in the Project Library and then choose New Folder again.
- Looking at the iMovie project itself, we see all the usual suspects: talking heads, B-roll and titles. When you are ready to move the project from iMovie to Final Cut, simply choose File Send Movie to Final Cut Pro X. Final Cut automatically starts and all project files and media are moved across without you needing to do anything more.
- Follow the steps given to Export iMovie to MP4 easily: 1. Open iMovie and Select File in the Toolbar to export iMovie to MP4. Select a movie, trailer, or clip of your wish, which you want to convert iMovie to MP4. Click Share option available in the Toolbar, and then click File option.
Why the iMovie always export my files into .mov format? Recently, I encountered this problem when I making a wedding video. And I found many users are talking about this problem on Apple Communities. So to solve it, I wrote this tutorial for help the people that meet this problem like me.
At first, let's see why we failed to export iMovie to MP4. Then see how to convert iMovie to MP4.
CONTENTS
- 1. How to Export iMovie to MP4 (Personal Experience)
- 2. Final Way - Convert Your iMovie Video to MP4 with External Tool
How to Export iMovie to MP4 (Personal Experience)
When I search on Google, I found many thread or articles for exporting iMovie to MP4 says to use the 'Export to QuickTime' option. But I didn't see the option on my iMovie with the version 10.1.10 on my MacBook Pro. I think that it might be caused by the update of iMovie.
Actually, I can only export the iMovie project via 'Share' > 'File' as the image below shows.
In the dialog that appears, I can find the following things that I need to choose:
• Title: Click the name at the top and then type a new name.
• Description: Type the description that you want to add.
• Tags: Click the Tags field, and type the tag names separated by commas.
• Format: Choose to export 'video and audio', or just audio.
• Resolution: Select an Resolution option. The unavailable resolutions will appear dimmed.
• Quality: Choose one from the 5 options: Low, Medium, High, Best (Prores), Custom.
• Compress: Set the compress speed.
Then, click on 'Next' button. It will go to a pop-up window which can specify the folder path to save the files. So far, all the things works fine. When I check the output file, it is saved as .mov format. Why? I changed various output options and found the answer:
If you set the quality with 'Best (ProRes)', the iMovie file will be saved as .mov format. But, when you share a movie as low, medium, high quality or custom, it will share as MP4.
Finally, if you want to export iMovie to MP4 video, please avoid to select the 'Best (ProRes)' quality option. This solution works for most of the people. But in case that you still can't save the iMovie as MP4 video, move to Part 2 to get another method.
Or, you still want to get the MP4 video with best quality from iMovie, the following method is also work for you.
Final Way - Convert Your iMovie Video to MP4 with External Tool
We can't find a workable way in iMovie to export MP4 video. So, we have to get help from other tools. With a video converter, you can easily convert your iMovie video (.mov) to MP4.
Here, I would share a good tool - VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate. This is a professional video converter which can help convert the iMovie project to MP4 format easily.
Clear interface can help you understand it quickly. Batch files conversion is allowed. The conversion can be performed with fast speed. So, it can be used to convert the iMovie file to MP4, as required.
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Step 1. Initiate the VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate
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Download and install the converter for Mac. Then open the main interface.
Step 2. Import the Exported iMovie Video
Click the button of 'Add Files' to upload the iMovie file. You can import multiple videos here.
Note: VideoSolo Video Converter Ultimate can't directly convert the iMovie project to MP4. You have to export the iMovie project to MOV, then this program can convert the exported MOV video to MP4. How to format ssd.
Step 3. Specify the Output Format
Then click the drop-down icon of 'Output Format' and select MP4 as the output format.
Step 4. Convert the Exported iMovie Video to MP4
The output folder is chosen by default, but you can change it to other destination folders via clicking the '…' icon.
Click the 'Convert' button to transfer iMovie to MP4 on Mac, and the excellent Mac Video Converter will automatically do the rest for you.
Finally, hope you can solve the problem that can't export video from iMovie to MP4 smoothly. If you can provide more ways that can convert iMovie video to MP4, leave it below and I will add it to this tutorial after testing.
It is easy to get confused between iMovie Projects and Events. Events can be used to store video clips which can then be used in multiple Projects. Clips can also be stored directly in a project.How to clean up imac. Check out Understanding iMovie Projects and Events at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. On this episode let's look at iMovie Projects and Events.If you're new to using iMovie, or even if you have been using it for awhile, you may be a bit confused about the difference between Project and Events and where clips go when you import them. It is very confusing. So let's take a look at an example and see if we can get to the bottom of it.You really can't do anything in iMovie until you create a project. So here I've got nothing in Media stored here and I've got nothing in Projects. I'm going to create a new project. It's going to be a standard movie project.Now on the left I can see the sidebar here that shows all the different media I've got. I've got the media in my current project which is called My Movie. The terms movie and project are pretty much interchangeable in iMovie. I look there and I've got nothing. I've got a big Import Media button.I can also look down here in the iMovie Library. This is where events will be stored and there are no events. Everything is totally empty and I just have this one empty project to start with.Now there are two main ways to bring video clips into this project. One is that I can go to File, Import Media. The other is that I can simply drag and drop to here. Of course I can also click here. It's the same thing as using File, Import Media.Just to make it simpler I'm going to drag and drop a video into here. Now I see the video clip here as part of My Media under My Movie. Notice there's still no events that have been created. So where are these events that everybody always gets. Tons of events in here. Well, it turns out that if you import something directly into your Projects, your movie, with it selected on the left sidebar it doesn't get added to an event at all. It's simply a piece of media. A movie clip that is only for this project. If you were to create another project you wouldn't have access to this clip. Only this project, this movie, has access to this clip and any other clips I import into it.So for many people you never need to mess with events at all. You can simply import video into the project, into the movie, and then forget about events and just create your video here by dragging and dropping from the media area into the timeline.So what about events? How do I get clips into events and what difference does it make having it in an event rather in a project media. Well I cannot create a new event here, File, New Event is grayed out, because I have the Project Media selected. I'm going to instead click where it says iMovie Library and now I can do File, New Event. It'll create an event and give it a name that has the date. I'll just change that to My Event, change it to whatever you want to be descriptive.Now I can import media and since I have the event selected rather than the project media selected it will import it into that event. So I'm going to choose three videos here. Import selected. You can see now that I've got My Event selected. I've got those three videos. When I look at Project Media I've got that other video I selected.If I were to select iMovie Library I actually will see all four. I see under My Movie one video and My Event three videos. So it's going to show me everything when I select this. I can also select All Events and I can just see the events, I would see this thing here and I can flip between them and if I had a second event I could flip between that. I can select just a single event. I can go back and select just My Movie and just see the stuff in there.Now at this point it is still somewhat straightforward until I go to My Event, which is basically just a storage space for clips. I select a clip and I drag it into the timeline. Nothing changes here but if I go to Project Media, to My Movie, I see both clips here. So what I've got now, is I've got one clip, this one, that's only part of Project Media. I've got another clip that appears to be part of Project Media but is also part of My Event. In fact it's not in two places. iMovie is smart enough to only store one copy of it in the iMovie Library. Since I originally brought it in as part of My Event this is where it is. It sits in this folder, if you want to think of it as a folder. But My Movie is going to give me a look at things that are in Events that I'm using in a current movie and it's going to give me clips that are not part of any event but I've imported and are just part of this project.Okay, so then what's the advantage to having clips stored in My Event here in the library rather than as part of the Project Media. Well, if you were to start a second project and this one by default is called My Movie 1 but I haven't saved it yet. You can see it has no clips in it. However, the events are all listed here. There's the three videos that I imported into the event but not the video that was imported into the other Project Media.So I have access to videos that are in events in all of the projects. So if you're going to be using your videos and creating a variety of movies from those clips then store them all in Events and then easily access each clip from an event, bring it into different movies. So you've got these two movies here. I can access all the clips in all of the events in either one of these. But in this one since I only imported this video of waves into the Project Media it's only available for this movie. That is the difference.But what happens if you've made a mistake and you've brought this in as part of the Project Media but you realize that you want to use it in other projects as well. Well, in this view it is very simple. You just click and drag to the event that you want to add it to. Now it's part of that event. When I leave this project and go into another one and I select that event I see this video is there as well. So it's very easy just by dragging to correct that mistake and make the Project Media part of an event. iMovie is smart enough not to duplicate the clip. It simply moves it. This is all just for organizational purposes anyway. Everything is handle under the hood. You're not actually creating more copies of the same file.So the bottom line is if you're not into organization at all and maybe don't use iMovie that often you just want to bring clips into Project Media and not use Events at all.However, if you are into organization and plan on mixing and matching your clips into different movie projects then you probably want to go to the media section of iMovie and here you can access under iMovie Library the clips used for each movie and the clips in each event and you can zero in on specific events. You can create new events. You can drag and drop items between events. So we could do, let's create a New Event. Then we can go in here and drag this over to this one and we can do all sorts of organizational things to put our clips into organized events and then access them in projects.You have either way. Either you can kind of use iMovie without organizing your clips in iMovie or you can use iMovie to heavily organize your clips into events before you even start making projects.How To Send An Imovie
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