Using Your Movies on the Internet

Just as directors need distributors for their films, after you’ve created your home masterpiece in iMovie, you’ll need a way to share it with your family and friends. With iWeb and .Mac, you can share your digital movies on a webpage. This way, anyone with access to the Internet can watch your movie anytime.

iMovie, iWeb, and .Mac make it easy to create your own movie webpage. After your webpage is published, you’ll have an Internet address that you can give to others.

Tips

Send your movie in an email message

With iMovie, you can send small movies, or even just clips from your movie in an email message. To do so, just select the clips you want to share, go to the Share menu, choose Email, then select your email application of choice from the Send email using pop-up menu. You can select "Share selected clips only" to send specific clips instead of the entire movie. When you’re ready, click Share and iMovie will automatically compress your movie clips, launch your email application, and create a new email message with your compressed movie added to the contents. Enter an email address and send your movie on its way.

Publish your page to a non-.Mac account

If you want to publish your movie to a website that is not hosted by .Mac, go to the iWeb File menu and choose Publish to a Folder. This will save all the files for your website to a folder on your hard disk that you can copy to your web server.

Modify your webpage

You can easily make changes to your webpages right from iWeb. Open iWeb, select the page you want to edit, and then make your changes. When you’re ready, click the Publish button. You can even use the Site Organizer to see how your site is organized.

Buy more storage space online

If you need more .Mac iDisk space to publish all your movies, just go to www.mac.com, log in, click the Account icon, and follow the onscreen instructions for purchasing additional storage space.

Steps

Share for web with iWeb and .Mac

With your completed iMovie project, go to the Share menu and choose iWeb.
From the Share window, select "Share for web" and click Share.
After your movie is compressed, iWeb will open. Choose a template for your movie, and then click Choose.
Make changes to the title and placeholder text on the page.
Click Publish. iWeb will copy your updated site information to your .Mac account as a web page.
Note the new location of your published web page from the dialog announcing your site has been published.
Click the "Visit site now" button to view your page on your .Mac account.

Share for video podcast with iWeb and .Mac

With your completed iMovie project, go to the Share menu and choose iWeb.
From the Share window, select "Share for video podcast" and click Share.
After your movie is compressed, iWeb will open. Choose a template for your page, select the Podcast style, and then click Choose.
Make changes to the title and placeholder text on the page.
Click Publish. iWeb will copy your updated site information to your .Mac account as a web page.
Note the new location of your published web page from the dialog announcing your site has been published.
Click the "Visit site now" button to view your page on your .Mac account.

Share your blog with iWeb and .Mac

With your completed iMovie project, go to the Share menu and then choose iWeb.
From the Share window, select "Share for video podcast" and click Share.
After your movie is compressed, iWeb will open. Choose a template for your page, select the Blog style, and then click Choose.
Make changes to the title and placeholder text on the page.
Click Publish. iWeb will copy your updated site information to your .Mac account as a web page.
Note the new location of your published web page from the dialog announcing your site has been published.
Click the "Visit site now" button to view your page on your .Mac account.