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iMovie: Quick To Do Steps List

This page gives the steps to import video from a camera, save the video, convert it to QuickTime, and Fetch it to your web space, or to be able to burn it to CD. This page is not comprehensive; instead it is meant to be simple for quick work that involves just getting and saving a clip. Please read the other pages for more information or if you're unsure about what any of this means.

Quick To Do Steps List:

  1. Go to one of the Macs (if you use the one by the chalkboard, you won't have to Fetch later on to burn your file to CD).
  2. Open iMovie
  3. Plug the camera in
  4. Switch iMovie to Camera Mode
  5. Press the Import Button on iMovie
  6. Press play on the camera
  7. Now you're importing. This is in real time, so it will take awhile.
  8. When done, click on Import or another button and iMovie will stop importing.
  9. The clip will be on the clip shelf. Drag and drop it to the clip viewer (the clip shelf is on the right side of the screen, the clip viewer is on the bottom of the screen)
  10. Now, go to the file menu and choose Export.
  11. From the options, you'll most likely want Web Movie Small, choose that and click Export.
  12. This will again take awhile, so be prepared to wait.
  13. Once it's done exporting, your QuickTime file will be a .mov file.
  14. Don't delete the project file yet, but you only need the QuickTime (.mov) file for the rest.
  15. If you're on the Mac with the CD burner, open the CD burner program and burn the file
  16. To transfer your .mov file to your webspace to save, or to your webspace so you can get your .mov file to the Mac with the burner, you'll use Fetch.
  17. Check your QuickTime .mov file works on another computer before you delete your project! If you don't and you delete the porject file, you could have to do all this again. This process takes a really long (tedious) time, so please check your files before deleting the project and having to start all over.
  18. Please see the Fetch help page.

    For burning your files to CD, please see the CD burning help page.

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