how do i convert iMovie project so windows people can see it?

Best way might be to convert it to a Quicktime file and ask your friend to install Quicktime for Windows.

Use the export or share function in the menu.

These may be useful to you:

iMovie 11 tutorials:

http://help.apple.com/imovie/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie

and also this:

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html

Matt

QuickTime for Windows is here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL837

In addition to Klaus' suggestion, you might also consider sharing your movie to YouTube. That may allow you to upload a higher resolution version of your movie than will fit in an email. You can password protect your movie so that it's not available to the public.

In iMovie choose Share>YouTube.

Matt

Message was edited by: Matthew Morgan

I have a related queston. A colleague wants a clip converted to .AVI format. Is that possible?

MPEG Streamclip will convert most formats to AVI. It is a free app available for both Mac and Windows, and can be downloaded from the developer Squared 5 here: http://www.squared5.com

Open the file with MPEG Streamclip (or drag it into the workspace) and select File>Export to AVI from the menu. Leave all settings as they appear in the export window and click Make AVI in the bottom right corner of the window.

John

EDIT: Noticed that a conversion I just tested had no audio in the exported file. The original movie (.MOV) is in H.264 format with AAC audio. Not sure what the problem is unfortunately. Anyway, give it a try using MPEG Streamclip - you may have better success!

Message was edited by: John Cogdell

Just discovered the problem. Audio does not play in QuickTime Player X, nor in QuickTime 7. But it does play in VLC 2.app - so perhaps a 3rd party component is required to enable the movie to play with audio in QuickTime.

VLC Media Player is available for download here (free and cross platform): http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

John

Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added VLC download link.

Thanks for the info. This sounded complicated enough that he agreed to just download QuickTime for Windows, something he'd been reluctant to do before because he "didn't want to clutter his computer with extra stuff." Problem solved, at least this time.

That sounds like a good solution. Strange that people don't want QuickTime, as it's widely used on the internet and elsewhere.

I tested playing an AVI file recorded by my wife's Canon digital still camera. That played fine in QuickTime, including the audio. But I'm still not sure why the MPEG Streamclip exported file played without audio in QuickTime.

AVI is simply a container which can contain different video formats, much like .mov files. So, not all AVI files are alike, of course. Anyway, good to hear that your colleague was able to play the video clip using QuickTime for Windows.

John

matty21202 wrote:

… has a windows 7 laptop …

A colleague wants a clip converted to .AVI format …

most probably, both persons can watch YouTube on their machines. 😉

(and: 'avi' stands for many people for 'video file', but is an obsolete media-wrapper, no 'format')

ok, from iMovie, that simple, no 3rd party tools involved, just some clicky-dee-click:

• Share/Export using Quicktime

• from the drop-down, select mpeg4

• click Options, in the next menu

• select h264, 1280x720, 4-6000 kbps

=> creates a mp4 with 'Youtube standards', playable on any Windows, Linux, PlayStation3, Xbox, whatever .......