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I am, as usual, frustrated with my ability to use iMovie😔. I have made a project and it is finished. Do I now save it somehow somewhere as an actual permanent movie. It used to be that a completed project was saved to the movie library. Has that changed or am I completely stupid?
iMac 27âł, macOS 10.15
Open the project and click on the share button (the little square with the upward pointing arrow in it) in the upper right or your screen and you will get a box displayed that gives you your share options, including sharing to File.
-- Rich
Open the project and click on the share button (the little square with the upward pointing arrow in it) in the upper right or your screen and you will get a box displayed that gives you your share options, including sharing to File.
-- Rich
Hi,
To return to your editable project after closing it you don't go to the library but rather you reopen it from the projects browser view in iMovie (where your projects are displayed as icons). To get to the projects browser click on the Projects back button in the upper left hand corner of your screen.
The projects browser screen will then appear. Click on a project's icon to open it.
Here's a link to an iMovie Help menu with a good search feature, that will explain the various features of iMovie 10:
https://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.1/
-- Rich
iMovie automatically saves to the iMovie library a project as the editing process is being done. So, you can quit and close the project, and later reopen it and take up where you left off. To save the project as a permanent standalone movie you need to share it out as a movie file. Even after sharing out the project you can still reopen the project and edit it some more, and share it out as many times as you want.
â Rich
Dear Rich839,
You are so helpful! Why is it that I can search for 30 minutes or more on the internet for the information and can't find it (even from Apple), and you have the answer at your fingertips? I sure appreciate you being there!
Now that I have accomplished that task, it leads to more questions! Having saved my project now to the "Library", and I now access the project, now saved as, in theory, a movie, when I access it through the "Library, it looks exactly the same as my "project", and you said that I can actually retrieve it and work with it further. Can you refer me to a reference that explains what is going on now, which appears to be soooo different from the way iMovie used to work. I guess I am a "need to know" person, rather than blindly doing. Please excuse my run on sentence there but I had to put all of my thoughts in sequence. I hope you can decipher it!
Thank you for the reply!! Next question - how do I save it as a standalone movie file?
Thank you again. Having saved the project as a movie, what would happen if I deleted the project? Would it also delete the movie?
A shared out Movie is completely independent of the project. So you can delete the project and the movie will remain intact.
-- Rich
IMovie project versus movie.
