How to Share my iMovie with others online?

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How to Share my iMovie with others online?

I have finally finished my first imovie and exported it sucessfully (after a lot of trial and error). It is about 400mb, 30 min long, in quicktime movie format currently. I need to now be able to share this electronically with other people. It is too large to send with email - I receive a gmail error. It seems also too large to be posted on facebook - also received an error there, though a vague one. I was able to get it on youtube but because I have a beatles song playing to pictures it was flagged for copyright issues and has been blocked/muted by youtube. I am not trying to make money off of this or do anything illegal! I just want to share what is a joint creative effort with the many people who contributed to the video! Any advice???

MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010)

Posted on Jan 25, 2014 7:23 AM

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AppleMan1958

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Jan 25, 2014 7:40 AM in response to kmgr

Yeah, this is a big can of worms.

You cannot use copyrighted material in your movies without the permission of the copyright holder. And you are unlikely to get it. The Beatles are picky about projects where they allow their music to be used, and when they permit it (like, say, an episode of Mad Men), they charge a royalty of tens of thousands of dollars.

In the days before YouTube, we all made DVDs to share with family, and you could get away with using a copyrighted track. It was still illegal, but there was no way for them to find you. Now, with YouTube, there are automatic algorithms where they can spot copyright infringement very quickly. You need to pay attention to this, because with repeated violations, you can lose the ability to post to YouTube.

Sometimes, music rights holders will allow you to use the track on YouTube, even though you are violating their copyright. But in this case, they will sell ads that play over your video and compensate themselves in that way.

So what you really want is to use Royalty Free music.

These two links might provide further help.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3921

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4201

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