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Without sounding too trite here,

by mrmacfixit - 6/3/11 6:12 PM

In Reply to: help with I movie and getting still photos of homme movies by yakers123

you best bet is to take a read of the help file for iMovie.

Does the transferred movie play in iMovie?

Can you select frames from the transferred movie?

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by yakers123 - 6/3/11 7:37 PM

In Reply to: Without sounding too trite here, by mrmacfixit

thanks for the post , Yes to both of your questions.
also took a look at the help file....still puzzeled.

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Here is a way to do it,

by mrmacfixit - 6/4/11 7:40 AM

In Reply to: help with I movie and getting still photos of homme movies by yakers123

assuming that you have iLife 011

Create a folder on the desktop and call it still images
Start a new project.
Call it whatever you want.
Your video clips, which should include all the movies you have imported into iMovie, should appear in one window, the event library, pane of iMovie.
Find the movie that you want to extract stills from. As you move the mouse over the movie you will see it play in the pane on the right.
If you hold down the mouse button and drag, you select a portion of the movie.
Make the selection as small as possible but make sure it contains the image you are trying to save.
Once done, right click and "Add still frame to project" The selection will go down to the time line
Click "Share" in the menubar
Make sure you are looking at the full Save As dialog box by making the triangle at the right end of the Save As line point Upwards. Just click it and you will see the difference. Up shows the complete dialog.
Make sure that you have selected the folder on the desktop, that you created earlier, as the destination.
In the Save as line put Stills
Choose "export using quicktime"
Select Movie to image sequence
Select Jpeg, 29.97 fps
Click Save.
Once the export is complete, minimize iMovie (yellow dot at top left of iMovie window) and open the Still Images folder.
Lots of JPEG images in there. Check them all and choose the one that you like best. Drag it to iPhoto.

If the picture you wanted is not there, go back to iMovie, delete the selection in the time line and start over.

Try it and let me know how you get on

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Forgot to mention

by mrmacfixit - 6/4/11 7:44 AM

In Reply to: Here is a way to do it, by mrmacfixit

even with a small sliver selected, you will get upwards of 100 stills each time you try this.
If you just choose the desktop to save them on, and not the folder on the desktop, your screen will be covered with all the exported pictures.

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by yakers123 - 6/4/11 6:52 PM

In Reply to: Here is a way to do it, by mrmacfixit

thanks for the great response, I will try it out tokmorrow and let you know.

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by yakers123 - 6/6/11 6:34 AM

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thanks for the help I was able to follow all the directions.
I was able to choose the stills I wanted an send them
via email. ould you aso be able to guide me through trying to email
movie clips?

thank you so much

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by mrmacfixit - 6/6/11 1:51 PM

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by R. Proffitt - 6/6/11 1:53 PM

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1. Email sizes are limited so clips usually overwhelm email/
2. I'm thinking DROPBOX for such things.
Bob

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this one is straight forward

by mrmacfixit - 6/6/11 4:18 PM

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Once you have your edited movie ready to go, choose Share from the Menu Bar and choose one of the following:
Export Movie: This will show you a list of devices that the movie can be sized to work well on
or
Export using QuickTime: This will allow you to choose what size & type you want, I would suggest Movie to Quicktime and then choose the method by which the finished file will be transmitted & received.

As Bob mentioned, bear in mind that there is a size limit for attachments on email. This varies with each ISP a movie that is 20MB is not likely to make it to the recipients, even if your ISP allowed you to send it.
Bob mentioned a piece of software called Dropbox.
It's free and would allow you to literally drop your movie into the drop box and allow others to access your drop box to download the file.
No mail involved, except for you notifying your friends about how to access your drop box.

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https://www.dropbox.com/downloading

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Dropbox available here:

by mrmacfixit - 6/6/11 5:04 PM

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can't thank you enough

by yakers123 - 6/6/11 8:13 PM

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you have been so kind, being able to send these to my friend overseas has ment so much.
All her photos when so was younger have been lost. These stills ment the world to her, thank you

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Glad to have been able to help you

by mrmacfixit - 6/7/11 4:49 AM

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Dig deeper into iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD and you will find there is a lot you can do easily

Good Luck

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