iMovie 8.0 Help
Publishing directly to YouTube
You can publish your iMovie project directly to YouTube, an independent website that freely hosts videos by its community members. To post to YouTube, you must have a YouTube account.
To publish to YouTube:
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Open a project or select it in the Project Library, and then choose Share > YouTube.
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Choose your account in the Account pop-up menu.
If you don’t have a YouTube account, click Add to be guided through the account creation process on the YouTube website.
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From the pop-up menu, choose a category under which the video will be categorized on the YouTube website.
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Fill in the following fields:
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Select the mobile or medium size for your movie.
If the larger sizes are not available, the original project media isn’t large enough to render in that size. The largest media size used in the project determines the final movie sizes you can render.
The dots below each device in the table of sizes indicate which movie sizes are recommended for use with that device. Either size is good for streaming from the YouTube website; the mobile size is easier to watch for people with slower Internet connections. Hovering the pointer over the “i” next to the movie dimensions displays the following information for the rendered movies:
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To allow your video to be viewable by anyone, deselect “Make this movie personal.”
By default, your video is viewable only by contacts you specify using your YouTube account. For information on how to specify who can view videos marked “Make this movie personal,” go to YouTube (www.youtube.com), click Help, type “Make video private” in the search field, and then click Search.
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Click Publish. iMovie uploads your movie to the YouTube website.
After the movie has been uploaded to YouTube, the title bar of your project in iMovie displays “Published to YouTube.” It also displays buttons that take you to the movie’s webpage and send notifications to your friends.
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To visit your movie’s webpage, click Visit.
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To notify your friends of the new movie you’ve published, click “Tell a friend.”
Title: The name of your movie.
Description: Some information about your movie for viewers to read. (This field is optional.)
Tags: Keywords that viewers can use to search for and find your movie. (This field is optional.)
H.264: The standard video compression that's used in the movie.
fps: The frame rate of the movie in frames per second.
Kbps: The maximum rate at which the movie can be streamed over the Internet in kilobytes per second.
MB: The size of the movie file in megabytes.
If you make further edits to your project in iMovie after you’ve published it to YouTube, the title bar indicates that your project is out of date and needs to be rendered again. Old versions of the movie are deleted and replaced by new ones when you render it again.
If you want to save the previous version of your movie before you edit it, export it to the Finder.