{"id":15,"date":"2006-01-04T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=15"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:34:22","slug":"exporting-from-imovie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2006\/exporting-from-imovie\/","title":{"rendered":"Exporting from iMovie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/imovie\/\">iMovie<\/a> is a great introduction to video editing.  It has simple menu options for transferring your finished video to DV tape or DVD disc, but exporting a full-quality Quicktime clip of your movie takes a few extra steps.  The designers probably didn&#8217;t expect beginners to have an obvious need for such a feature, but it&#8217;s a good trick to learn.<\/p>\n<p>A Quicktime clip is the best way to take your iMovie work into another program for further editing.  And, burned to a data disc, it can be your most easily-accessible backup.  (Most beginning users don&#8217;t have have a DV camera or deck hooked up full-time to their computer, but everyone has a DVD or CD drive ready to go.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b> Choose <b>Share<\/b> from the File menu.  (Apple probably chose the term &#8220;Share&#8221; because it sounds less technical than &#8220;Export.&#8221;  Interestingly, newer versions of iMovie have <i>both<\/i> a Share and an Export menu option.  Both do the same thing.)<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/imovie_export01.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b> Choose <b>Full Quality DV<\/b> from the Quicktime panel, and save your file.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/imovie_export02.jpg\" vspace=5 border=1\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b> The resulting file&#8217;s name will end in <b>.dv<\/b>.  You can go ahead and change this to the standard <b>.mov<\/b>, if you prefer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iMovie is a great introduction to video editing. It has simple menu options for transferring your finished video to DV tape or DVD disc, but exporting a full-quality Quicktime clip of your movie takes a few extra steps. The designers probably didn&#8217;t expect beginners to have an obvious need for such a feature, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}