Exporting your video from software package like Apple’s iMovie or Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker will give you the same quality on Viddler.
Here are some tips from us to help you get the best out of both of these packages.
Apple’s iMovie ‘08 and/or ‘06:
When exporting your video project from iMovie, select “Export using Quicktime.” (
example screenshots). This will give you advanced settings to export your video. You will have options to edit nearly every aspect of the final video output, but we suggest looking at a few important ones. These are called format, resolution, video bit-rate, audio bit-rate. To see each of the settings for these, read the suggested video encoding settings below them.
If you do not want to deal with any of these advanced settings you may export the movie using iMovie’s “Apple TV” specification. This should give you a video file that will be good enough for most uses.
Windows Movie Maker: Unfortunately Windows Movie Maker does not support exporting in any other format besides DV-AVI, and WMP9. While you may upload either of these two file types, you can not use these file types to share via iTunes, on iPods and iPhones, or on Apple TVs and Tivo set-top boxes. These devices only support the Quicktime (.mov) or MPEG-4 (mp4,m4v) video formats.
To convert a Windows Movie Maker project into a Quicktime-compatible file you will need to first export the video as DV-AVI and then convert it into Quicktime using Quicktime itself. The same optimal video encoding settings below apply.