Finalize your Project & Export Movie
How to Export a Video in iMovie. You created a video in iMovie and now you want to export it, just go to the upper right corner and locate the Share button (arrow pointing up in the box). IMovie for iOS and iMovie for macOS are designed to work together. You can start cutting a project on your iPhone, then use AirDrop or iCloud Drive to wirelessly transfer it to your iPad. You can also send a project from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac for finishing.
If you are creating a video project for class you may be asked to upload the file to OAKS, bring it to class to show in a classroom, or upload it to a social media service (i.e., YouTube, Dropbox, Google Drive). In these cases, it is best to export your project to a medium file size that can be transported or uploaded.
iMovie
- Select Share > Export Movie
- Select Medium > Name your export file > select the file extension .mp4 > Save in your Movie Folder > Click Export
- Copy the exported file to your Google Drive, a flash drive, CD/DVD-R, or Dropbox account)
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Watch your Video
After you export your video project, you will want to watch it before you turn it in or play it for others. Each computer uses different software to view files and some files require very specific video players.
- A great, open source media player that will play most file types is VLC Media Player. VLC is available in most College technology rooms. VLC can be downloaded and installed on most computers. For more information and download, visit: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Make your Movie Accessible
What are Captions?
Bill Stark provides an excellent definition and overview for captioning video in his Caption it Yourself Basic Guide for Busy Teachers, Families, and Others Who Shoot Their Own Video.
'If you upload video to the Web, and that video includes sound, you should always include a text alternative, such as captions. As an added bonus, since most captioning for the Web relies on text, providing captions for your videos will ensure that they are indexed by search engines more quickly and accurately, meaning your video will reach more people. Captions (sometimes called 'subtitles') are the textual representation of a video's soundtrack. They are critical for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and they are also a great tool for improving the reading and listening skills of others.'
- Basic Guidelines for Busy Teachers, Families, and Others Who Shoot Their Own Video (web) by Bill Stark for more information on captioning.
Resources for Captioning
YouTube
- YouTube: Making Videos Accessible the Easy Way!: This video tutorial demonstrates YouTube's built in capabilities to caption videos easily by typing video transcripts directly into the YouTube interface and using the automatic timing feature.
Programs
- MovieCaptioner is a software program designed to add captions to videos. It allows for multiple caption export files. College of Charleston has a site license for Movie Captioner. The software is free for all faculty, staff and students. Instruction on how to download the software are available on the Help & Training tab in My Charleston (bottom center of the page).
- Creating Captions Using Movie Captioner Tutorial: This video tutorial from Teaching, Learning & Technology takes you through the process of using Movie Captioner software to caption your videos.
- Kaltura MediaSpace: Adding Closed Captions to a Media File: This video tutorial from Teaching, Learning & Technology takes you through the process of attaching caption created in Movie Captioner to uploaded videos in Kaltura (a Youtube-like, online media area specifically for College of Charleston faculty, staff and students). To learn more about Kaltura, review the Distribution section of this guide.
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- Overstream (url) | Online editor allows you to create and synchronize subtitles to any online video, store them on the Overstream server, and send the link to the subtitled video overstream to your friends. Suggested uses from Overstream are customizing an online video by adding your own comments or subtitles in any language, or sending a custom video postcard.
Turn In/Distribute your Movie
Check with your professor to find out if you need to upload your video project file to OAKS, bring it to class to show in a classroom, or upload it to a social media service (GoogleDrive/Dropbox). Below are a few places to find and share video at the College of Charleston and on the web.
Video Publishing Online
- Kaltura MediaSpaceis a Youtube-like, online media area specifically for College of Charleston faculty, staff and students. Unlike other media servers on campus Kaltura is available to students so it can be used to upload video projects. Faculty can use it to upload tutorials, online lectures or any original work.
- Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. It is an online platform for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating curating and spreading media. Critical Commons goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based research, teaching, learning and creativity. Critical Commons is not affiliated in any way with Creative Commons.
- G+ Hangouts: Review the 'Creating and Participating in Google+ Hangouts' tutorial from Teaching, Learning and Technology to learn more about participating in and recording G+ Hangouts sessions. All students have a Gmail account automatically created for them when they enroll at the College.
- YouTube is one of the most popular online video search engines. YouTube is a community just as much as it is a video search engine. Once logged in, you can upload videos, save your favorite videos, comment on videos, create subscriptions to particular users and tags, and create and join groups of common interest. You can also publish videos 'privately,' which only allows individuals with the URL to view the video.
- Vimeo is a video search engine community with over 45,000 registered users. Vimeo provides a very clean interface that is fast and very easy to use.
- uStream allows users to broadcast video LIVE to the world from a computer, mobile or iPhone in minutes, or watch thousands of shows from News to Entertainment to celebrities, 24/7.
Import and Edit Video
iMovie
Watch the tutorials provided below to learn how to import video, organize and trim your clips, add photos and audio, include transitions, titles, and effects and create a voiceover for your video projects.
iMovie for Mac (online tutorial)
iMovie for iPhone (online tuturial)
iMovie for iPad (online tutorial)
Additional tutorials are available at iMovie Support (web).
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Media Converters
Sometimes you will need to convert files so that you can view them in a media player or use them in a video editing program. For example, you can NOT import a .mov file (a Mac/iMovie format) into a PC editing program. iMovie will not import an .avi file, a common extension for Windows movies. If you want to use the media, you will need to convert the file into a format that can be imported into your video editing program. This can often be a problem with video footage taken using mobile devices. For example, if an android phone is used to film media that will be used in a iMovie project or if the operating system on a mobile device is not compatible with a newer version of software.
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Below are a couple of video converters you can use online. You can perform a wider search on the web for additional resources.
- Zamzar (free/web)
- ClipConverter/YouTube - converts YouTube videos to .mp3 audio files (free/web)
- Online Convert (free/web)
- HandBrake (free/software download)
- Google 'free online media converter'
- Google 'import (type of file) into (program)
File Types that can be Imported in iMovie:
- .mp4
- .mov
