How do I move my iMovie library to a flash drive?
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How do I move my iMovie library to a flash drive?
Double-click your drive on the desktop to open it and see its contents. Open the Movies folder in another window. Drag the iMovie Library. zip file from the external drive to the Movies folder.
What is the difference between a project and an event in iMovie?
The Event Library workspace and the Project Timeline look similar. The major difference between the two is that you cannot edit in the Event Library workspace. All editing must occur in the Project Timeline. The most you can do in the Event Library is select a certain clip and drag that clip into the Project Timeline.
How do I move an iMovie project to another library?
Jump to step:
- Open iMovie on the source computer.
- Make sure both libraries are accessible from the source computer.
- Add the destination library to your computer.
- Select the source iMovie library.
- Select the project you want to move.
- Wait for the transfer to finish.
How do I export my iMovie library?
Add the movie to your Photos library
- From the Projects browser, select the iMovie project you want to send, click the More button, then choose Share Project.
- Click File.
- Click the Resolution pop-up menu and choose a size for your video.
- Choose a location to save the video file, then click Save.
How do I save an event in iMovie?
From the Projects window of iMovie, move your cursor on top the Page 2 project you wish to save. A small icon will appear: it looks like an ellipse inside a circle. Click this icon to bring up the menu. Click Move to Library and then select the library that you just created in the flashdrive.
What is an iMovie event File?
If you choose to import video footage into your library, iMovie automatically places the clips into events, based on the date and time the video footage was recorded. Events are like folders that contain your clips. Despite their initial time-based grouping, you can use events to group clips any way you like.
How do I reduce the size of my iMovie library?
You can manually delete files if you prefer to have more control.
- Open Finder and click on Movies.
- Right-click iMovie Library and select Show Package Contents.
- Navigate to Render Files and delete anything you don’t need.
What is the difference between events and projects in iMovie?
How do I move an iMovie Project to another library?
Why is iMovie taking up so much storage?
In fact, iMovie is a space hogger. To edit a movie, iMovie transcodes the clips into a format that is suitable for editing but is extraordinarily large in size. Also, files such as render files are created during the editing. That’s why iMovie usually takes up a few or even more than 100GB of space.
Why are iMovie files so large?
This is because of the much higher bitrate of the pro res format. So what you are doing is exporting at a much higher bitrate than the bitrate of the clip that you originally imported. Therefore much larger file size. Also, iMovie does not support 2.7k resolution, and that’s why it got reduced to 1080p.
How do you copy iMovie clips between events or LIBRARIES?
How do I export iMovie that is too big?
If your movie is too large to send, you can reduce the size of the movie file. Cancel your current message or email, return to the share screen, tap Options, then choose a lower resolution.
How do I compress iMovie without losing quality?
Compressing a video file using Apple iMovie (MAC)
- Step 1: Edit your movie as usual.
- Share your movie using the ‘File’ option.
- Look at the options for changing the Resolution and Quality of your movie.
- Tweak the Resolution and Quality until the file size is less than 500 MB.
- Save the exported file to an appropriate place.
What is the difference between events and Projects in iMovie?
What is the best way to export iMovie?
Share or export your iMovie project on Mac
- From the Projects browser, select the iMovie project you want to send, click the More button, then choose Share Project. If you’re editing a project, click the Share button .
- Click Email.
- Click Share.
- Click Share.
- Complete the email that was created, then click Send.
