iMovie problem

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sequitursequitur
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in Genius Bar edited September 2015

I tried to send a video file by email.which was rejected as being 35MB. I cut it in half using iMovie but when I tried to send the 1/2 (around 17.5), it was rejected as being 259MB. Does iMovie make files almost 15 times larger than the original? What did I do wrong?

 

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    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    sequitur wrote: »
    I tried to send a video file by email.which was rejected as being 35MB. I cut it in half using iMovie but when I tried to send the 1/2 (around 17.5), it was rejected as being 259MB. Does iMovie make files almost 15 times larger than the original? What did I do wrong?

    Thanks

    iMovie converts clips into editing formats, which are typically much larger than delivery formats as they encode frames individually rather than groups. To send files via email, you are better off using server storage services like DropBox:

    https://www.dropbox.com/en/

    You'd sign up for a free account and get 2GB of space. Then upload the 35MB movie to DropBox and share the link via email. This lets you send the same movie to multiple people with a single link and you aren't filling up the recipient's inbox.

    Yosemite has a feature to do this called Mail Drop:

    http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/how-to-send-large-email-attachments-with-mail-drop/

    If you have iCloud and Yosemite then you can do that instead of using DropBox.
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    sequitursequitur Posts: 1,910member

    Thanks Marvin,

     

    I don't know what I'd do without you and AI. I have Mavericks on my mid 2014 iMac, so I signed up with DropBox. 

     

    I have Yosemite on my older iMac and will set up MailDrop on it. 

     

    Thanks again, you da man. 

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