Apple iMovie HD User Manual download pdf (Page 27)

Exporting a QuickTime Movie

To export your project as a QuickTime movie,

choose QuickTime from the Share menu, or press

Shift-

1-E, and then click the QuickTime button.

Choose a preset from the pop-up menu.

To specify custom compression settings,

choose Expert Settings.

Expert advice. You can often improve on the

picture quality provided by iMovie HD’s Email,

Web, and CD-ROM presets by using the Sorenson

Video 3 compression scheme. To access it, hack

through the following thicket of dialog boxes. In

the Save dialog box that appears after you click

Share, choose Movie to QuickTime Movie from the

Export pop-up menu, then click the Options but

ton. The Movie Settings dialog box appears; click

Settings. In the next dialog box, choose Sorenson

Video 3 from the pop-up menu. Now click OK sev

eral times to go back to safety. If you like, explore

the rest of the Movie Settings dialog box—it’s

where you can specify the movie’s pixel dimen

sions and sound settings.

To learn about compression, see iMovie HD 6 &

iDVD 6 for Mac OS X Visual Quickstart Guide, by

Jeff Carlson (Peachpit Press, 2006). For more

QuickTime resources, see www.macilife.com/imovie.

Bluetooth is a wireless technology that

connects devices over distances of up to

about 30 feet. You can buy cell phones,

printers, palmtop computers, keyboards,

and mice that use Bluetooth’s radio

waves instead of cables to talk to each

other and to the Mac.

All current Mac models have built-in

Bluetooth. If yours doesn’t, you can add

Bluetooth using a tiny and inexpensive

adapter such as the D-Link Bluetooth

USB Adapter, which plugs into any free

USB port on your Mac.

Mobile multimedia. Having Bluetooth is

just one part of the mobile movie equa

tion. Another part is a multimedia stan

dard called 3GPP, which is supported by

a growing number of cell phones and

other gadgets. QuickTime supports

3GPP, too, and it’s this support, com

bined with Bluetooth, that makes it

possible to play a movie on a phone.

To play a 3GPP movie, you need a

3GPP media player for your device.

Two such players are Kinoma Player

(www.kinoma.com) and RealNetworks’

free RealPlayer (www.realnetworks.

com/mobile).

Making the transfer. Be sure your

phone is on, then choose Bluetooth from

the Share menu. In the Share dialog box,

click the Bluetooth button, then click

Share. iMovie HD compresses your

movie, then displays a dialog box for

transferring it.

To have your Mac search for nearby

Bluetooth devices, click Search.

Select the device to which you want

to transfer the movie.

Your phone may display a message ask

ing if you want to receive the movie.

Choose Yes.

After the transfer is complete, navigate

to your phone’s messages menu, choose

the new message, and watch the show.

Tip: iMovie HD saves the compressed

movie on your hard drive; you can use

Mac OS X’s Bluetooth File Exchange

program to transfer the movie again.

Inside your movie’s package ﬁle (see

page 274) is a folder named Shared

Movies. Inside that folder is a folder

named Bluetooth. Your compressed

movie is there; its name ends with the

ﬁle extension .3gp.

If you have numerous Bluetooth devices,

you can narrow down the list of devices

displayed by choosing the device category.

After choosing a device, click Select.

To play a 3GP movie on a Palm

OS device, you need player soft

ware that supports the 3GP for

mat. Some Palm OS devices,

such as the Treo 650 smart

phone, can play 3GP movies

right out of the box. If your

device can’t, try Kinoma Player

(www.kinoma.com), a versatile

mobile media player that handles

3GP and other formats.

With Kinoma’s inexpensive

Kinoma Producer, you can com

press a movie created in iMovie

HD into a variety of mobile for

mats. To do so, locate the

Timeline Movie.mov reference

movie for your project using the

instructions on page 276.

Drag this icon into Kinoma

Producer, choose the desired

audio and video settings, and

click the Convert Files button.

You can use Bluetooth File

Exchange to transfer the com

pressed movie to your Palm.

A Movie In Your Palm

Exporting to a Bluetooth Device

Amid the police lineup of the Share dialog

box are two buttons that represent iMovie

HD’s geekier sharing features.

With the QuickTime button, you can

export your project as a QuickTime movie.

You might export a QuickTime movie in

order to publish it on a Web site or burn it

on a CD (page 276). Or you might want to

email a movie to someone but use your

own compression settings instead of those

applied by iMovie HD’s Email preset.

With the Bluetooth button, you can

transfer your movie to a cell phone or other

gizmo equipped with Bluetooth wireless

technology. An iPod is a better venue for a

portable movie, but watching a movie on a

phone is great geek fun.

Just remember to switch off your movie

theater when the aircraft is not stopped at

the gate.

More Ways to Share Movies

Exporting widescreen. If you’re

exporting a 16:9 project, the movie

dimensions listed in the Share dialog box are

inaccurate—they’re for 4:3 movies. Your exported

16:9 movie will have the horizontal dimension

listed in the dialog box, but the vertical dimension

will be shorter.

If you’re using the Expert Settings option

described at right, specify a movie dimension of

720 by 405 pixels (or a multiple thereof).

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