help with iMovies?

[littleshinyone]

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone might be able to help.

I make little movies of my little girl every month or so for grandparents, which i export privately to youtube. My dad normally watches them through my mums youtube account. He's off to visit my grandma in a nursing home in a few days, and would like to be able to show her the most recent video (he has an ipad, but the connection is difficult- and he's not overly great with technology). Is there any way of packaging a video as a file in an email that wouldn't depend on an internet connection while he's there?

thanks for your help, I'm hoping this is really simple and easy for those that know how!!!

bump?

iMovie will allow you to "share" your movies. When you do so, you are given a choice of compression (I.e how small do you want to make the video).

If you choose the appropriate format it should be email-able (depending upon the length if the movie)

Hi technodad, thanks for this. I'm learning all sorts of new things!! Even with it 'tiny' in the media browser (who'd have thought one of those existed?!) I still don't seem to be able to get it small enough to email- compressing doesn't work enough either... it's only 5 mins long...

thanks anyhow, I may just burn it and put it in the post!!

What size are you trying to achieve?

hi again,
I was even just trying to export it to the browser as 'tiny' which said it should be down from 80somehting mb to 29mb which i was hoping to be able to email - the server suppports up to 35mb, but somehow it was still above the limit (can't remember exactly.... all those added extras i presume!).

Never mind!

There is another way of doing it. Put the video directly onto the iPad so that you would view it as you would a movie. Or am I missing something?

If your video is MP4 type then you don't even need to convert the file.

Hi PTTE, thanks for your reply- and sorry for the delay- I had a baby on Saturday so have been a bit busy!!

i've edited the video on my imac, and deleted it from the camera, and now want to transfer it, and not sure how i can do that- can it be as simple as a USB or similar? really?

the reason i was wondering about email was that my dad wanted to show my gran a video just the day after we'd spoken- in the future if ican burn a CD etc and post that, then that would be fine too.... (stupid question alert - do ipads have USB ports, and / or DVD slots?)

thanks for your thoughts!

You were busy having a baby? What kind of excuse is that? :o Mucho congrats.

iPads don't have USB or similar (Apple wants to control how you use their gadgets).

I had a light bulb moment since I replied to your original post. You said you usually post your videos to your Youtube account. Well, if your dad uses the Mozilla Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer then that browser has a button to download the Youtube video onto his PC. I normally use this function to save copies of my fave Youtube pop videos onto my MP3 player.

From there you dad can load the video onto his iPad via iTunes. Mission accomplished.

ah, brill! the firefox method seems like the way forward... although i may need to get my brother to go round there to streamline the process!! fingers crossed it's as easy as it sounds!!

thanks for all your help!