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How to Export a Movie in HD using iMovie 08

2008-12-25
hey guys john r Ettinger with John four Lakers comm here you've been following any of my recent videos you know I made the switch to HD and you might also know that I struggled with it a little bit as far as audio issues the regular quality video is played fine the video was synced up with the picture you were seeing no issues but when you hit the watch in HD button the idea was like 10 seconds behind 5 seconds behind it just wasn't synched up and it did not look right at all so I did a little bit of digging I was able to figure out what the problem was I figure I had this problem maybe you guys are having me too or you maybe you know somebody that is and hopefully this will help so I'm going to show you how to export movies from iMovie in HD and get them uploaded to YouTube without any audio seeking issues so they look fantastic in YouTube's new high-definition format so first thing that you're going to need is iMovie oh wait iMovie Oh 6 or iMovie HD won't really cut it so I'm gonna go ahead and open it up right here so here's a project that I had already opened its the t-mobile g1 unboxing that I just recently posted so go to file new project make sure you have a 16 by 9 aspect ratio select did you have a few other options about you really want to make sure you have 16 by 9 go ahead and hit create I'm gonna hit cancel since I already have one open here so go ahead and do your editing anything you would normally do with your video next go to share export using Quicktime now this is where things can get a little bit squirrely but if you follow this along and you pause it and make sure your settings match up you won't have any issues so call it whatever you'd like make sure you select export using MPEG 4 go ahead and hit options so here's we really need to make sure you're following along here file format needs to be mp4 video make sure that's selected there mpeg-4 basic data rate 5000 image size 1280 by 720 HD framerate use current and four frames use 24 there's a summation of the video right down here so make sure you guys copy that and make sure that that's what you have on your video as well so next we'll hit audio I do a format AAC - LLC data rate 320 channel stereo output sample rate 4800 and encoding quality better and again here's a real quick sample of what everything should look like go ahead and hit OK hit save and you guys will be good to go it'll export your video and you can upload it to YouTube just like any other video but be prepared that HD takes up a little bigger size and it'll take a little bit longer to upload just a friendly heads-up so hopefully this will help some of you solve your audio synching problems I know it certainly helped me took a lot of digging but was able to get a solution to it so hope you guys enjoyed be sure to check out the website WWJ enforce calm it's a community forum of all user-generated content I don't write much down there it's all users that go and write whatever technology related and insures them and they get a chance to promote themselves and for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter at wwe.com slash John for Lakers alright guys I will see you in the next video bye bye
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