How to save an iMovie as mpeg file

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How to save an iMovie as mpeg file

Very new to Mac and iMovie. I need to make a movie for work, but need to save it as an mpeg file so that our communications department can take it and embed it into a Powerpoint presentation.
Is there an easy way to save as mpeg?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Mar 2, 2010 8:55 AM

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Answer 1

rrodby

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Mar 2, 2010 10:22 AM in response to kbpadgett

Make your movie project, open it, then go to the Share menu and choose "export using Quick time" and you can export it (direct it to your desktop to fond easy) as as .mov file which then can be put right into Powerpoint. very easy to do. the movie exporting into a .mov file can take a long time if a long movie

roger

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JG99

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Mar 2, 2010 10:23 AM in response to kbpadgett

Go to the Share menu and choose export using Quicktime...

JG

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Answer 3

Mar 2, 2010 11:33 AM in response to kbpadgett

h.264 - which is MPEG4 - is the default export setting for iMovie.
If your communications people need MPEG2 or MPEG1, that is different and would require more detailed instructions using 3rd party tools.
MPEG3 is audio only.

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