Emailing a Movie

You can easily share your movies by publishing them on YouTube. Or you may simply want to email a short 30-second movie to friends or family. But, be careful: If you email a gigantic movie file, it could take up all the space in your friend’s email inbox. Try to keep any movie file you email under 2MB.

To email a movie file:

1. Click Share > Export using QuickTime. A settings dialog appears.
2. Give your movie a name and choose where to save it. You might want to save it to your desktop.
3. Choose “Movie to QuickTime Movie” from the Export pop-up menu.
4. Choose a compression preference from the Use popu-up menu. This selection determines how QuickTime will adjust settings to compress your movie and minimize its file size.
5. Click Save. iMovie renders your QuickTime movie and saves it to the location selected in Step 2.