[MacDV] Re: Compressing in iMovie '05 (or Toast or iDVD?)

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 2/28/05 7:55 AM, Timothy Luoma at lists at tntluoma.com wrote:

> 
> On Feb 28, 2005, at 4:09 AM, Gregg Gorrie wrote:
> 
>> Exporting from Final Cut Pro using the Quicktime conversion option and
>> selecting "MPEG-2", you can adjust your bit rate and it will show you
>> the
>> resultant file size. I seem to recall that the Quicktime MPEG-2
>> encoder got
>> installed with DVD Studio Pro, but there may be an option to purchase
>> it
>> separately or it may be installed with other apps?
> 
> Yes, I believe I bought it for $20 (I don't have FCP).
> 
> So the way to do this would be to make an iMovie, open it in QT, and
> then save it through that?
> 
> I'll try that this evening when I'm home.
> 
> TjL

Yes, you should be able to export to Quicktime/MPEG-2 if you have that
installed. Let us know if it works for you.

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Gregg