Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps, Second Edition [Electronic resources] : A guide to iLife 05, .Mac, and more! نسخه متنی

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From the File menu, choose "Share…."

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A sheet drops down from iMovie's title bar and offers six ways to share a movie: Email, HomePage, Videocamera, iDVD, QuickTime, and Bluetooth.

Click one of the icons at the top of the sheet to show the options available for that category. A separate sheet for each category provides its options and settings, including a description of the file that will be exported.

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Open an iMovie project.

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From the File menu, choose "Share…." Click the "Email" icon.

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From the "Send email using" pop-up menu, choose the name of the email program you use.

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Type a name for the exported movie in the "Name of saved movie" text field.

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Click the "Share" button. The chosen email application opens with the exported movie attached to a new message form (below-right).

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Type a message, put an address in the "To" field, then send the email.

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To conserve storage space on your iDisk, you might want to export only selected clips instead of the whole movie. If so, first select several clips in the Timeline.

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From the File menu, choose "Share…." Click "Homepage."

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Type the name you want to use for your exported movie. Don't change the extension (.mov).

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If your iDisk is almost full, click "Buy More Space" to log in to your .Mac account and purchase more iDisk storage space.

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If you selected clips earlier, now click "Share selected clips only."

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Click the "Share" button. A sheet drops down from the title bar that contains a "Compressing movie…" progress bar (left). IMovie compresses the movie, formats it to play on the web, and copies it to your iDisk on Apple's servers.

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A .Mac login page opens in your web browser. Enter your member name and password, then click the "Enter" button.

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A .Mac HomePage window opens as shown below. Choose one of the movie page themes from the templates provided to open an editable HomePage movie page (below-right).

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Edit your movie page (shown on the right) by customizing the text in the text fields.

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Click the "Preview" button to preview the page.

To change design themes, click the "Themes" button.

When you're satisfied with the page, click the "Publish" button.

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Put a blank video tape in your camera, or make sure the tape is positioned at a point where you will not record over other footage.

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Connect the camera to your computer with a FireWire cable.

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Put the camera in VTR mode (sometimes called VCR mode) or "Play" mode. Do not use "Record" or "Camera" mode.

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In the iMovie File menu, choose "Share…."

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In the "Videocamera" sheet (shown below), set how many seconds of black to record before the movie, and how many seconds of black to record after the movie.

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Click the "Share" button. If your movie contains scenes that have slow motion, fast motion, or reversed effects, iMovie will tell you that it needs to render those scenes before it can export the movie.

Tip

This export option immediately starts a DVD project by opening your movie in iDVD.

If you want to import your movie into a DVD project later, export the movie as "Full Quality," as explained on pages 172173, then import the full-quality DV file into an iDVD project at some other time.

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Open an iMovie project.

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From the File menu, choose "Share…."

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Click the "iDVD" icon.

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Click the "Share" button.

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This opens your edited movie in iDVD. Your movie is now part of an iDVD project and is saved in your Documents folder as "your--project-name.dvdproj."

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Open an iMovie project.

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From the File menu, choose "Share…." Click the "iDVD" icon.

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From the "Compress movie for" pop-up menu (circled below), select one of these compression options:

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  Email:
  This compression option is suitable for sending a small movie to someone through email. It compresses your movie to 10 frames per second, sized to 160 x 120 pixels, with monaural sound.

  If your movie is very long, even this highly compressed format will produce a file that's too large for email. A 10-second QuickTime movie with the above setting is around 200 kilobytes. To keep the movie size as small as possible, select several clips from the Timeline before you choose "Share…" from the File menu. Then make sure to click the "Share selected clips only" box in the drop-down sheet.

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  Web:
  This option creates a QuickTime movie file that is 12 frames per second, 240 x 180 pixels, with medium-quality stereo sound.

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  Web Streaming:
  Choose this compression setting to create a QuickTime file that uses the same settings as the "Web" option, but also includes "hints" to the file that enable web streaming.

  Web streaming movies do not have to wait for the entire movie to download to your computer before they can play. In fact, streaming movies don't download to your computer at all. Instead, the movie starts playing after a buffer of data is received by your computer, and continues to play until the stream of data ends.

  Streaming movies work on QuickTime Streaming Servers, such as the HomePage server that's included with a .Mac membership.

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• CD-ROM:
  This option compresses your movie to half of full quality15 frames per second, 320 x 240 pixels, and full-quality stereo soundideal for copying to another computer or to a CD. The final file size is approximately twice that created by "Web" or "Web Streaming" compression.

  When you use the Share options of "Email," "-Home-Page," or "iDVD," the exported file is put in a "Shared Movies" folder that iMovie creates inside the project "package."

  To open the iMovie package, Control-click on the iMovie project icon, then choose "Show Package Contents." A Finder window opens to display the files and folders of the package.

  

• Full Quality:
  Choose this compression option to save a QuickTime movie that is full quality30 frames per second, 640 x 480 pixels, and full-quality stereo. The final file size is MANY times larger than the files created with the other compression schemes listed here. A 10-second test movie file compressed as "Web" weighed in at 500 kilobytesand 32.4 MEGAbytes when compressed as "Full Quality."

• Expert Settings:
  If you've upgraded your QuickTime software to QuickTime Pro, you can use custom export settings that you've set in QuickTime. QuickTime Pro enables you to edit, save, import, and export multimedia files using a large selection of file formats. You can upgrade your copy of QuickTime for $29.99 at www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade
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Use Bluetooth Setup Assistant to set up your Bluetooth device.

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Open iMovie. If you want to export only selected clips, then select those clips now.

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From the File menu, choose "Share…." Click "Bluetooth"; see below.

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Click the "Share" button to compress the movie. If you selected clips, check the box to "Share selected clips only."

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In the Bluetooth Device window that opens, select a device.

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