most recent 30 from http://videowtf.com 2010-09-09T01:41:29Z http://videowtf.com/feeds/tag/quality%2bformats http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://videowtf.com/questions/186/export-high-quality-video-from-imovie Douglas 2009-10-08T15:43:10Z 2009-10-10T16:51:06Z

<p>The great thing about iMovie is that tons of people have it for free, installed, and it is fast and easy to learn and use. Plus it simplifies YouTube uploading and iPod/iPhone publishing.</p> <p>But what about sharing and sending work around to be re-mixed? How can you export your iMovie project to a "full quality" or "uncompressed format"? It doesn't appear that you can.</p> <p>The current version of iMovie given away on all Macintoshes is iMovie 09. Since version 6, however, full-quality export to DV video has been disabled, and sending an edited movie back out to MiniDV or other camera source has also been disabled. I assume Apple is trying to push Final Cut, it's higher-end editing tool, but we've got schools with labs filled with iMacs that all have iMovie installed and ready to go.</p> <p>I'm looking for advice understanding all the different export options in iMovie, a path to getting the best quality export to different formats and different work environments, and I'd also like to whine about this terrible limitation in iMovie. But I promise not to whine too much.</p> <p>Can anyone who is a master in iMovie talk about the different export formats, the dozens of weird options in each one, and explain how to improve the export qualities in each format? The DV Stream, which I would assume meant full quality, is definitely NOT. DV from iMovie 6 looked much better.</p>