iMovie '09 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Method 3: iMovie to iWeb

This isn't a book about iWeb, of course, but here's enough information to get your movie onto a Web page of your own design—and hang the whole thing on the Internet for the masses to see:

1. With the finished iMovie project open, choose Share → Media Browser.

   The dialog box shown in Figure 13-7 appears (see Method 3: iMovie to iWeb for a description of its options).

   

   Figure 13-7. The Media Browser (Method 3: iMovie to iWeb) is your one-stop shopping center for all the music, photos, and movies on your computer. You're about to load it up with even more movies to share with your other Apple programs.

2. Choose the size(s) you want for the movie on your Web page.

   You can choose multiple sizes to send to the Media Browser, if you like, although, of course, you're using up more hard drive space. (Word to the wise: In general, choose Tiny or Mobile. Use Medium only if all of your fans use high-speed Internet connections.)

3. Click Publish.

   iMovie cranks away, compressing your project down to an exported QuickTime movie file in the size you specified.

   Note

   iMovie keeps track of which sizes of each project you've exported to the Media Browser. If you see some of the Size checkboxes dimmed, it's because the Media Browser already has versions of this project in those sizes.

4. Open iWeb (Figure 13-8).

5. Open the Web page you want to edit, or choose File → New Page to create a new one. Click ...