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Klaus1 Author

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Old Toad, can you assists?!

Running Mojave 10.14.6, iMovie 6.5.1 and 9.0.9

What used to be easy before Mojave now isn’t (it was in High Sierra). I am trying to save an iMovie 6 project as an MP4 file, playable in iTunes etc, but I cannot get it to work.

Handbrake won’t do it, VLC won’t do it, Toast won’t do it, nor will Quicktime. iDVD will, but I don’t want any themes.

So I decided to try iMovie 9 (previously untouched) but found that I have to register this first (why?), but the link to registering it goes to some seemingly unrelated corporate registration setup for different applications.

So, I am stuck in the wonderful world of non-backwards compatible Apple software.

I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions on how to proceed!

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 2:58 AM

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Rich839

Level 8

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Posted on Jan 5, 2022 10:00 AM

Hi, Klaus,

I'll certainly defer to Old Toad if he sees and responds to your post.

Meanwhile, have you tried the following path from iMovie 6?

File/Export/Expert Settings/Share/Export:Movie to MPEG-4/Save

I tried it with a copy of iMovie 6.5.1 project on my Mac, also running Mojave. The above will export an Mp4 file.

-- Rich

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