

When she accepts the connection, the file is transferred (usually faster than it would have taken to send it through email). Then, assuming your friend is online, drag the file to her name in iChat's Buddy List. First, export the movie as a QuickTime file (detailed in Chapter 16). When iMovie sends the movie to your email software, a new message is created that includes the attachment and Subject line (Apple's Mail program shown here).Ĭlick the Send button (or equivalent in your email program) to send the message.Īnother way to send movies to a particular person is by using Apple's iChat AV. In the new outgoing message that is created, enter the name or email address of the person you want to send the message to ( Figure 17.3).įigure 17.3. iMovie compresses the movie using its default Email settings (see Chapter 16), then hands it off to your selected email program. Give your movie a name if you want to change it from the project name.Ĭlick the Share button.

Choose your email client from the popup menu in the Share dialog.

Unless you alternate between several email clients, you'll likely need to perform this step only once.įigure 17.2. Otherwise, ignore this step.Ĭhoose your email program from the Send email using popup menu ( Figure 17.2).

The Email tab of the Share dialog makes it easy to compress and send a movie to your friends via email.Ĭlick the box labeled Share selected clips only to export the range you selected in step 1. In the Share dialog, click the Email icon, if it's not already selected ( Figure 17.1).įigure 17.1. Otherwise, skip to the next step.Ĭhoose Email from the Share menu, or press Command-Shift-E. To export only a few clips from your movie, select them in the Timeline or the Clips pane. IMovie can compress your video in an email-friendly size and pass it off to your email client as a file attachment.
