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rebhaf

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Aug 25, 2005
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I'm trying to post a home video on youtube.com, which allows you to post videos up to 100MB.

When I transfer (or "share") my clip from iMovie to Quicktime format, I only see options for high quality (about 600MB) and CD ROM (about 20MB) and lower. Nothing in between. And, unfortunately, the quality in 20MB is pretty bad.

Is there some way to manually choose the resolution? Or, if not, is there another way to get closer to 100MB? The iMovie file is 1.47GB.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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You could try iSquint. It can convert most media files into mp4 format. You can set quality too. I'm not sure if it supports DV, but you could try it.
 
Do new versions of iMovie not let you have advanced options? I'm pretty sure my older version of iMovie lets me output to just about any QuickTime settings imaginable. But maybe that's because I have QT Pro. Any insight?
 
elfin buddy said:
Do new versions of iMovie not let you have advanced options? I'm pretty sure my older version of iMovie lets me output to just about any QuickTime settings imaginable. But maybe that's because I have QT Pro. Any insight?


I was thinking the same thing, but I also have QT Pro.:confused:

To the OP... are you trying to watch the compressed file in something larger than it's new resolution? Playing a 360x240 file(for example) larger than native will give you a degrated pic.
 
rjgonzales said:
... are you trying to watch the compressed file in something larger than it's new resolution? Playing a 360x240 file(for example) larger than native will give you a degrated pic.

No, I'm just trying to take my iMovie project and save it as a QuickTime file around 95 MB (the limit to post videos on youtube.com is 100 MB). When I have the iMovie project open, I click on File/Share and it gives me lots of options, like email, CD Rom, etc.

The highest-quality option is to format it for iDVD and that makes it about 600 MB. The second-highest quality after that is for a CD ROM, which makes it about 25 MB. This is what I used and the the quality is pretty bad. I'd like to get it around 90 or 95 MB.
 
when you click share in iMovie the bottom has an option for "expert" in there you can export to any format almost and you can change the size and what nots


for youtube i would just use the E-mail export setting / or use the iWeb export as that will put the file size to under 10mb
 
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