Long iMovies to Vimeo
Hello. I could use some help. I am using iMovie (on my Mac mini) to create 45-50 minute long church service videos each week. I am compiling music, scripture, lessons...etc and posting them online for the community to view. I am posting them via Vimeo.
Here's the issue. In order to upload/share them on Vimeo i have to reduce the quality down to 240p (mobile size) because the limit is 500MB. I have tried to reformat some of the larger segments before I upload them to iMovie. And even changed some video segments into audio to reduce the MB of those specific segments. But... this did not effect the overall MB size once it's all put together. The only way to get it the size reduced is to shorten the iMovie to under 30 minutes...but I don't want to split the service into two segments.
The pastor used Movie Maker for the first 2 attempts at this and those videos are just as long (or longer) and able to be viewed as high as 720p on Vimeo. I am using his account on Vimeo...so it's not a membership issue (as far as I know). Am I doing something wrong on iMovie? What are my options?
Can someone help me with this? Thank You