iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Method 1: Publishing Movies on a .Mac Account

By far the easiest way to post your movies on the Internet is to use one of Apple’s $100-per-year .Mac accounts (visit http://www.mac.com for details, or open System Preferences, click .Mac, and click Sign Up).

A .Mac account gives you a whole raft of Internet-based services and conveniences: electronic greeting cards, synchronizing of calendars and Web bookmarks among the different Macs in your life, a backup program, an antivirus program, the ability to check your email online—and HomePage, which lets you generate your own Web pages.

iMovie actually provides two different Web-publishing routes.

UP TO SPEEDGetting a .Mac Account

.Mac, Apple’s subscription online service, provides everything you need to put a collection of your movies online. Unfortunately, the service isn’t free. A .Mac membership will set you back $100 per year.

The good news is that Mac OS X makes it incredibly easy to sign up for an account, and a two-month trial account is free. (There are a few limitations on the trial account; it grants you 20 MB of iDisk space instead of 125 MB, for example.) If you don’t already have an account, here’s how you get one:

Choose → System Preferences. When you click the Internet icon, the .Mac tab is staring you in the face. Click Sign Up.

Now you go online, where your Web browser opens up to the .Mac sign-up screen. Fill in your name ...