I created an iMovie project and exported it to a file, it will not play on a PC. I'm using the latest version of iMovie, how can I make it playable on a PC?
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 8.1.3
read my suggestions in the User Tip section of this board:
How to create a video for playback with Windows/XBox/PS3/… etc?
The resulting file out of iMovie is an .mp4 not a .mov. Does that sound right?
If not natively supported, the free VLC player on Windows should play either file type without problems.
Geoff.
Problem is my daughter is taking it to school (school project) and the school machines do not have VLC player installed.
matmkirk wrote:
The resulting file out of iMovie is an .mp4 not a .mov.
so, you HAVE already a .mp4?
Then is the question: why is the stubborn school PC not playing it?
h264 inside a mp4 is THE universal format, since the invention of YouTube...
The User Tipp is just meant for files as mov, m4v, etc...
All these 3-letter suffcies are just 'wrappers'; in the Windows world is some dislike of mov (= you need a cost-free plugin to handle mov on PC)
Maybe, these school computers are antique; ask the teacher, what OS is on the PCs, and what format the video should have. Macs deliver standard conform files; and you can convert into almost anything.. we just have to find out into what...
… and now to something completely different:
How does your daughter deliver the movie? On a stick? … then check in Finder the format of the stick! If it is hfs/'Mac', a PC can not read it. PC ask for fat32 or, newer ones, ntsf.
Play an iMovie on a PC
