Of course if you're exporting a video you want to choose a video and audio. Now if you want all of the export options you would simply go to File, Share and then File. Because if you're uploading to a site you really should be using the website which gives you the full set of upload options and allows you to set all the features of that video. But it's really a good thing, in my opinion, that iMovie doesn't allow you to do that anymore.

Previous versions of iMovie allowed you to upload directly to sites like YouTube. It just creates a file and then you upload using the website itself. But you can't choose anything else like the compression amount and this doesn't upload to YouTube or Facebook. You can choose some different resolutions going all the way up to 4K if your video is 4K. You can just choose the resolution just like with email. Likewise if you choose YouTube & Facebook you also get a very restricted set of options. You don't get to choose any more options but the ones here. Even if you can do it it's quite an assumption to think that the other person can easily receive that large file. Videos are just too big to send by email. I wouldn't try to send any video by email. After all you probably want to have a small video if you're going to send it my email. We take a look at Email and it's only going to allow us to choose a resolution here. Both Email and the YouTube & Facebook options give you a very limited set of settings. The other three options allow you to export video. Now Image will just export the current frame as an image. I can export by either clicking this button here and it gives me these four options or I can go to File, Share and I get the same four options there. So here I am inside of an iMovie project. You have a lot of options when exporting and the options will determine both the quality of the video and the file size.

So after you're done making your iMovie project you need to export it. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to choose Export options in iMovie on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.

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