[MacDV] Re: Exporting audio only from iMovie to play on a PC

[Erica Sadun]

>On Dec 2, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Carl Flatow wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to grab the sound off of a video to email to someone. 
>>iMovie 3 on OS X 10.2.8.
>>It's a long clip so I need max compression.
>>I am exporting to aif with Qualcomm compression at max but Windows 
>>Media Player wont open it.
>>File size and sound quality are acceptable.
>
>I don't know what "Qualcomm compression" does exaclty, but what I 
>would do is just export the audio to aiff without any compression, 
>then use iTunes to encode it as an mp3 file using whatever settings 
>will make the file small enough for your use. Just about anything 
>will play an mp3 file.
>

Simpler. Open the reference movie (in the top level of your
iMovie project folder) directly in iTunes, then convert
to MP3

-- Erica