iMovie '08 question

Hello,

I've spent the past several hours creating a slideshow of many images, videos, and songs in iMovie '08.

The images, videos, and songs are all from my external hard drive that I have plugged into my computer.

I am trying to make it so that I can save the iMovie project onto my external hard drive and that I'll be able to open it on another computer.

So far, no luck. When I attempt to open it on another computer, "My First Project" is all that will show....no sign of the actual slideshow I've created.

I just spent an hour waiting for iMovie to export the movie to my external drive, and it's just an m4V file that cannot be edited.

Any ideas???

Thank you,

John

I'm confused. Did you try to open it in QuickTime?

Out of curiosity, what do you do to create an .m4v file?

Are you trying to make the resulting video playable on another computer?

To open the iMovie Project on another computer you'd need all the media available to that computer in the same place you have it available to yours.

To create a single movie which encapsulates your timeline in the project you need to go to the share menu and choose one of the export methods to write out a file that will be portable.