Ok, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. Every thread I have read in these and other forums for exporting to .mp4 format from iMovie says to use the "Export to QuickTime" option. Problem is, I don't see that option in iMovie 10.1.1. The only seemingly logical option is to use Share->File, but when I walk through the steps it always saves the file as .mov. How do I export as .mp4?
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/4GB/750GB/SuperDrive
You are right. There is no "Export to Quicktime" option in iMovie 10.1.1. (Incidentally, an update came out today, 10.1.2. No significant changes as far
as I can see. Haven't worked with it much yet.)
When you share a movie as low, medium or high quality it will share as a Mp4. If you share it as Best Quality (pro res) it will share as a .mov. The file size in pro res will be a lot larger, but the quality is noticeably better, and you will have your movie in a format that is better for editing, should you need to do that outside of the original project itself.
This works great for me : take your video file and drag it into a logic (empty) window.
While the "correct" procedure might not work, this works like a charm.
Logic will even accept other types of video format.
Thanks! That was it, changing the quality to High saved it as an .mp4.
Rich,
thanks a lot. i spent an hour stumbling around in the cloud until i found your post. problem solved.
barry v
Thanks for this! i spent the whole day tryin to figure it out
Yay! Excellent advice! Would be nice if Apple stepped up their user experience a bit and had a pop up stating something like ".mov" only.
Thanks!
wow, spent whole night trying to figure this out. Thank you so much, very helpful.
I follow this exporting guide:
https://www.nbpts.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/VideoExportGuide_iMovie.pdf
But still fail to export iMovie to MP4.
export mp4 in iMovie
