How to Convert an iMovie to CD?

I have the same question. made a movie in iMovie 06 of clips from my flipvideo camcorder. No problem with using 06. saved it onto the HD. all went fine. I have also saved as quicktime.

am noticing that you were unable to play from a CD. The iMovie HELP doesn't offer any advice on copying to CD. only to quicktime and iDVD.

searched here and found no threads on that question

help?

edit: forgot to say that I need the CD to play on a windows pc

thanks

sue

Message was edited by: Sue brown1

on further thought. I viewed the quicktime version and it is really inferior to the original in iMovie so would prefer the IMovie > CD burn so it will be recognized and play on a windows CD.

think I found the answer from a general burning Cd thread here. file>export . took me to burn CD. !!! so simple and I'd never used the file > export before but it worked for the imovie. well, not exactly as the movie was too large for a CD so I burned it to a DVD.


so now I'll test it and hopefully get it to the person tomorrow morning.

CD media is limited in file size and is not "fast enough" to display the QuickTime file found on it.
Send the CD and instruct the viewers to "copy" (drag and drop from the mounted CD) the file to their Desktop for playback.
You want to burn a "data" CD.

Hi QTK,

thanks for that response as it helped me also. After burning the imovie to a DVD (too large for CD) I clicked the icon > folder with movie opened > clicked to open> dialogue box " the project could not be opened, bec the disk is full, the folder is locked, or folder permissions are incorrect". If CD, drag to desktop. but since this was a DVD, not a CD, I didnt. I just clicked OK . > it opened in iMovie. strange.
even more strange was the suffix on the file. (".imovieproject") not ".dv".. so wondered if it would be able to be opened by my firend tomorrow.

read your response and decided to drag the file to MY desktop to see what happened. As it was copying to the desktop it the copy bar said ("name of movie.dv") even though when it finished to the desktop it still has no "dv" and is back to ".imovieproject. I guess it is a dvd though.

I will tell my friend to drag it to her desktop as you suggested and see if it will open for her.

I do wonder why, if a dvd, I can't get it to open in iDVD on my mac. it opens in iMovie. will not allow opening in iDVD

thanks for your response

Sue

Export the iMovie Project to a QuickTime format and use the Finder to create the DVD as a "data" file.