YouTube Encoding with iMovie HD 6

[BurialKru]

Thank you bro, heiped me out, new user.

[revert3]

thank you sir very helpful video!

[Sing2Piano]

Thank you!!!

[MrsRonnyFarrell]

Thank you SO much you REALLY helped me ALOT !!!

[super1commenter]

if you can have 60fps do you still do 30 fps?

[SirEuchre]

There's really not much gain in doubling the fps on the encoding. Once you've passed 24 fps, your eye has a very hard time discerning any real difference. The YouTube re-encoding also expects that framerate for it's best results.

[TheYouSphere]

Why are my iMovie HD 6 Expert/Options different than yours? The screen is completely different!

[SirEuchre]

Interesting. Could you take a video or at least some screenshots so I can compare?

[freshasalwayz]

THank You!

[IanBowmanFeelsGood]

Thanks a lot for this video sir! Definitely helpful.

[dragonrox11]

why didnt you compress high video quality with it?

[SirEuchre]

This video was made before the high quality option was available to all users on YouTube. If you wish to encode for a higher quality and the 16:9 player, you can certainly do so. The setting for 30 fps would still apply, as would the H.264 encoding. The settings I show are still quite effective for basic video playback.

[mtimpano]

A Million Thanks!

This was so helpful!

I was stuck and confused until I watched this.

please keep doing what you do.

m

[SirEuchre]

Pleased I could be of help!

[SpecMovies]

Thanks for the video. I tried what you suggested with all of the setting and the result was a movie with the sides narrower and still not in HD. You must have left something out.

[SirEuchre]

This video was made before the 'high quality' feature and widescreen (16:9) player were introduced for all users. That's why you get the 'pillarboxed' result. If you wish to have your video be in the new format and size, you would need to choose a size which isn't 4:3 ratio. I'd have to review the sizes offered and see if there's one best suited to the new format.

[RKB2424]

thanks

[axebully]

is this imovie 6.0.2?

[SirEuchre]

It may have been, but my current version is 6.0.4 - which may have been one of my Software Updates since this was made.

[rileyluvr13]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is helped me a lot. =)

[iPhoneKiller1593]

I like smallville and is their a way to still frame an image and me walking or running in it.

just like pausing the rain effect.

[twgoldwood]

i used imovie hd 6 for the first time today and i'll say it was the most user friendly, and easy to use movie editing software I've EVER used.

[SirEuchre]

I have to agree, based on my experiences thus far. I have to admit, I haven't used Vegas, Premiere, or Final Cut yet - but those are just a wee bit more complex without a doubt. They are of course more powerful, but unless you know what you're doing it's not much worth the money and hassle.

[RunescapeNewsAndPk]

but how do i publish it for a normal movie??

[SirEuchre]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'normal movie'.

[iPhoneKiller1593]

how do I combine a clip because I want to create a still frame

[SirEuchre]

Combining clips is just a matter of them being rendered as one from iMovie itself. If you want to create a still frame, that's another matter. If you want to use a frame in a video as your still, you can scroll to that frame and save it as a jpeg. If you wish to just add a still frame, you simply add a still image like a jpeg in via the tools at the right of the main window, or basically just drag it to your timeline.

[klimmedia]

can you help me? every time i export my video with these settings, it exports no video, but only the audio. the whole video is just black

[SirEuchre]

Are you dragging your clips to the timeline at the bottom, or just to the clip library at the right?

[shlitybonbon]

holy hell this helped so much :D

[gnomegnuggets]

do u hav to do it as private?

[SirEuchre]

No, you don't have to - but if you are concerned with the video having processed correctly on YouTube's end before the public sees it, you should set it as private first. If that's not so much of a concern, just upload with it set as public.

[Fletchercole]

Well done! you did this at a tempo that I can actually follow! I've bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks

ken

[SirEuchre]

Thanks!

Something else I should mention is to be sure when you create your project initially, you set it to an NTSC (4:3 aspect ratio) project. HD is the default which is 16:9, and results in some or all elements of the video being 'squished' when you encode to the 4:3 output settings. I created a blank project to use as a template to make it easier.

[ellooxgovna13]

thank you this helped so much!

[SirEuchre]

Glad I could help!

[DawnAkemi]

Very cool, Euchre!!! Why that seems virtually idiot proof... though we won't know this for sure until I test it out... ;-) Please don't take down the video either as I didn't take notes but will refer back. How awesome that you did this. Thank you!!!

[Nikki2987]

Euchre!

Long time no post!

Good to see you're still around!

♥Nikki