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My movie files are huge....

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I'd really like to put some movie clips I have on YouTube, but they're HUGE files. I have one that's 2:40, but it's 552 MB. They need to be under 100. What can I do to compress them....? I'm very new to editing video on my Mac, so I'm a little lost here. Advice?
 
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iMovie is the amateurs choice for editing and publishing on the Mac. You want to learn to export to a .mov file and size it to 320x240 according to this page. I suspect they would prefer you use the Sorenson Video 3 codec. Codec is the tech term for type of encoding used.

See this link on custom iMovie exporting.

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