Subtitles of the Movie

Now let's look at the other formats available for distributing iMovies. Notice, in the export movie window, there's a drop down menu here where camera is now selected. I'll go to that menu and select QuickTime. QuickTime is Apple's universal format for digital movies. I'll click on this drop down menu so you can see the compression formats which are available in iMovie. I'm going to discuss each of these formats individually. Let's look at e-mail first. Yes, it's possible to send your latest movie of the kids by e-mail to grandma in Australia. Be careful though, e-mail files will probably be at least 1 megabyte per minute in size, 5 minutes would be a large file for a 56K modem to handle and could take up to 15 minutes also to download over the Internet. Only a doubting grandmother would have that much patience. Notice iMovie provides you with all of the details of the file here in this box. E-mail movies are tiny, 160 x 120 pixels, no bigger than a large postage stamp really. Next, we move onto weber movie small. This format is suitable for movies, which we would like to post on the website. It's a screen size that is slightly larger at 240 x 180 pixels. The problem with web movies is that like e-mail movies they take a long time to download over the Internet and many surfers just won't wait for the download. So, iMovie provides the next option, which is streaming movies. This format is the same size as a web movie but it has an enormous advantage. As soon as enough of the movie has been downloaded. It'll start to play and as you are watching this first part, the second bit is being downloaded and should be available for viewing by the time the first section has been completed. The next format is CD-ROM movie. This format is designed to produce movies, which will playback happily from any CD-ROM, which is of course very useful, as every computer now has a built in CD-ROM drive. The movie size has now been increased to a respectable 320 x 240 pixels and a frame rate up to 15 frames a second. Now, let's look at full quality. This format will compress movies at exactly the same size and quality as your original. That is 720 x 480 for NTSC or 720 x 576 for PAL. That's with millions of colors at a full 25 or 29 frames per second. Now, let's look at the last option, which is expert this option allows you to bypass all of iMovie selected formats and choose your own. As the option suggests, expert assumes that you know what you are doing and you would rather choose the size, frame rate and compressor, which is right for your project. Click on the export button and you'll be taken to this window, which asks you to name the file and where you would like to have it stored. Be warned any of these formats take a very long time to render. One question you might ask is can I use a QuickTime movie in iMovie. I'm afraid the short answer is no, iMovie will only accept movies in the DV stream format. However, the good news is that you can convert any QuickTime movie to a DV stream by using Apple's program QuickTime Pro. Unfortunately, QuickTime Pro is not part of the Mac operating system and you'll have to buy it at a cost of 30 dollars. However, if you get into iMovie and use it a lot, this is an investment well worth making. I hope you've learned, all you need to know to create great iMovies. That's all from me. Good luck and may I wish you many happy hours of video editing.