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I'm having problems trying to convert my 15 min movie to quicktime for uploading to youtube. It contains still images at the start and finish with HD video in between. After compressing, all the still images fill up the square screen, while all the video is in widescreen with webpage data and other gobbledegook filling the remainder of the screen at the bottom of the playing video. For the life of me I cant work out how to standardise all the images and video into one nice seemless clip without all this other external data corrupting the file. Can anyone pls help me?
 
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It is not clear from your explanation where you are seeing "webpage data and other gobbledegook".

* Is it within the exported video? (play in quicktime before uploading to youtube to see if it is)

* Is it on the youtube page your video is on after uploading to youtube?

* Is it on a web page that you have created and embedded the code that youtube gives you after a successful video upload?

One thing to note is your video is 15 mins in length wherease youtube allows a maximum length of 10 mins
 
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Thanks Del. No I haven't made it as far as youtube yet. The unwanted data is present in what should be the blank black space below the exported video, seen when playing the clip in quicktime (no problems playing the clip in imovie). It seems to be picking it up during the compression process. I'm guessing it is doing this because of the different formats of the stills to the video.

I can edit the video under 10mins no problem for youtube, but I would like to keep the stills at the start and the end of the short film. Can I convert these stills to widescreen so its all the same format or shouldn't this be a problem?

Cheers.
 
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Keysy said:
Can I convert these stills to widescreen so its all the same format or shouldn't this be a problem?

Cheers.
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You can convert if you wish but there shouldnt be a need, imovie will just leave a black border if your stills are smaller than the video project.

It's quite some time since i last used iMovie but what i do (in final cut express) is to size my still photos to the video size in photoshop BEFORE i import them in to the movie i'm editing.
 

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