Taking Your Movies with You

You can show your creations to friends and family wherever you go by putting your movies on your iPod, mobile phone, or PDA.

With your movie on a portable device, you can easily watch your movies anywhere. You can even connect your iPod to a TV and show your video masterpiece to a larger audience.

Tips

Send your movie to a compatible Bluetooth phone or PDA

If you want to view your movies on your Bluetooth enabled cell phone or PDA iMovie makes it easy to transfer your creations for viewing anywhere. In iMovie go to the Share menu and choose Bluetooth. In the sheet that appears, click the Share button. Your Mac will search for any Bluetooth enabled devices in range, choose the device you want to send your movie to from the list that appears, and then click Select. On your cell phone or PDA accept the incoming movie, and enjoy the show.

Watching videos from your iPod on your TV

With the optional iPod AV cable, you can watch videos stored on your iPod on a television. Simply connect one end of the iPod AV cable to your TV and the other end to your iPod or iPod Universal Dock. From the iPod main menu, choose Videos > Video Settings, and set TV Out to On.

Phones and PDAs have limited space

Because of the limited hard disk space available on many phones and PDAs, you should make sure that any device you share clips with will be able to receive the clips.

Adding Bluetooth to your Mac

Many Apple computers come with Bluetooth technology built in. You can purchase Bluetooth USB Adapters for any Mac with a USB port to enable short-range wireless data connectivity between your Mac and Bluetooth-enabled devices. Go to www.apple.com/store and then click the Wireless link in the Mac Accessory section.

Steps

Send your movie to your iPod

From the Share menu, choose iPod.
In the sheet that appears, click the Share button.
Watch as your movie is compressed and saved in your iTunes Library.
In iTunes, click the Videos playlist in the Source column, and then double-click your movie to view it in iTunes.
Sync your video-capable iPod with your Mac to transfer your movie to your iPod.
On your iPod select Videos from the main menu, then select Video Playlists. Select your movie from the list of movies to play it.