iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Method 2: iMovie to MobileMe

YouTube certainly is the people's video-sharing service. It's got the most videos and the most eyeballs watching them, and it offers buttons that let your audience leave fan mail (or hate mail) in the comments and rate your work on a five-star scale.

YouTube does not, however, have the best quality. The page containing your movie is cluttered and ugly. And unless you post a high-definition file to YouTube (Posting to YouTube (After the First Time)), your videos look grainy and small.

If you publish your masterwork to a MobileMe account, though, it's a whole different world. The presentation is classy and glamorous—in high definition, even—and the movie itself is nice and big (see Figure 13-5).

MobileMe is Apple's $100-per-year suite of Internet services and conveniences: synchronizing of calendars and Web bookmarks among the different Macs in your life, a backup program, the ability to check your email online, and iWeb publishing, which both let you generate your own Web pages.

Figure 13-5. Movies you post to MobileMe look quite a bit better than they do on YouTube. The background is dark and classy, the scroll bar and volume controls are easy to figure out, and the top, left button takes you back to the full "table of contents" for the movies and iPhoto slideshows on your site.

Here's how you get your movie into your MobileMe gallery:

1. With your project on ...