iMovie question...how to export to large mpeg

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yeah yeah, tech talk bitch!

ok, so Mt. Bailey Cat Skiing wants to use my video for ads and promotion. Yeah! Free cat skiing in exchange!s

I need to get them a copy of the file in as high quality as possible. The original is 1 gig or so.

I have figured out how to export using the expert settings and can select mpeg-4 as the format. But when i try that, it comes out as a 35mb file and is a 2"x3" square, which is perfect for the web but isn't big enough to give away on a disc for later viewing. (They are going to a ski club show in Chicago and want to distribute discs to the clubs.)

when i export the file to quicktime in "full DV quality",i get a .mov file that my PC (the one with the CD burner) can't read. It says that quicktime can't read .mov files. Weird.

Ideally, that would be the file that I give to them. But I'd accept a clean copy that would fit on a CD in data format.

help! thx in advance...

[Littlejerry]

Go File -> Share -> then select Quicktime. Set the "Compress movie for" to EXPERT SETTINGS. Then hit the share button. A save dialog will come up and you will then be able to set the setting for the video just as if you where exporting from Quicktime. I usually export to MPEG-4. Then you can use the option button to set the size and bit rate. If you have Quicktime 7 pro (new release) you might be able to export in H.264. It is a pretty bad ass codec.

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thanks, bro. i'll give it a shot.

nice first post!