Export Option is Grayed Out

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Export Option is Grayed Out

I just made a slideshow to commemorate my son's 21st birthday. I want to send the slide show to others. I made the slideshow into a Quicktime movie and want to send it in that format. I want to compress the movie, as it has 90 images. Instructions under Help, as to how to compress the movie, tell me I have to go to File- Export, then choose the compression options there. But when I go up to File-Export, Export is grayed out. Any suggestions? I use a Mac, am mainly exporting to people on PC's.

20 inch iMac w/Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.5), Powerbook G4

Posted on Sep 12, 2007 7:26 PM

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Answer 1

Ricktoronto

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Sep 12, 2007 8:34 PM in response to -TIA-

If you can live with a tiny caption from the company on each photo (very tiny) Talasoft makes a far easier slide to QT program called Talaphoto (free with the little captions) . The file is not big but quality is very good. If you do not have QT Pro you cannot export anything at all. That is a big part of what Pro means. If you made it in iMovie you can pick compression options there can't you?

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ksteen

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Oct 24, 2007 3:29 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Kirk, i am having the same problem as TIA. Maybe you can help. I made my slideshow in iMovie but upgraded to Quicktime Pro in order to cut the video into two parts (so it would meet YouTube length standards). So now i have the two parts and i want to compress each one using Quicktime Pro, but Export is grayed out. I did use songs purchased from iTunes. Thanks.

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Answer 3

Oct 24, 2007 4:05 PM in response to ksteen

Most iTunes music is still DRM "protected" and you don't have the right to share (export) that music.
Find some other music for your iMovie Project if you want to use it on more than one machine or distribute it via sharing/export.

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Answer 4

Sep 12, 2007 7:45 PM in response to -TIA-

Does your "slideshow" contain audio that was purchase from the iTunes Music Store?
Do you own QuickTime Pro or are you using some other app like iPhoto to make the file?

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Answer 5

ksteen

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Oct 24, 2007 4:17 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Ah, makes sense. Thanks.

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