How to save an iMovie project? Here we show you all the steps you must follow to do so.
If you have a Mac computer or an iOS device (iPhone/iPad/iPod), surely you know his spectacular iMovie video editing program.
With iMovie, you can create videos, clips and trailers in the best Hollywood style, as well as making movies with 4K quality. The same editing tool has a lot of good functions that help us to have professional finishes within our videos.
Although this wonderful tool is very useful, good and practical, for some users, the function of “save videos”, not because it is something complicated to do, but because you do not know the steps of the interface, to save.
For that reason, we wanted to give you the task of giving you a complete tutorial, so you can save an iMovie project.
Ways to save an iMovie project
There are really only two ways, in which we can save an iMovie project, one of them tells us about saving projects after they are finished and the other is about how we can save them, even without being finished.
Those are the ones that we will now explain to you:
Save a finished iMovie project
Within iMovie, we have the possibility to save our projects (videos, movies, shorts, clip) with different output formats. For this reason, before saving a finished project, you must have in mind or at least visualize the format that suits your needs.
You should also know that everything project made in iMovie, it must be exported to Mac and that if you close the project before saving it, you will lose all the work done on it. That is why it is considered to be very aware of electrical failures, lest due to a blackout, you end up losing all the time and effort invested in your edition.
Now yes, without further ado, we leave you the how to save a finished iMovie project.
Steps to save a finished iMovie project
After you've done with your project, all the adjustments, settings, and edits, that you wanted, it's time to save it. To do this, follow these steps:
Within iMovie, look in its menu for the option “archive”, in it you can locate the option of “import project" or "create new project”. Then you must click on “Share” or “export movie”. At that moment a pop-up text window will appear, in it you must enter the name of the project and the destination folder, where it will be saved. It also lets you choose the size of the video, depending on what you need.
Then you just have to click on the “export” button, that way it will start the iMovie project save process. You should know that this process will surely take a few minutes, while the program adds the changes to the video or movie, everything depends on how heavy they are.
That would be all! That way you will have been able save a finished project inside iMovie.
Note
The same program leaves us the options to save our projects, inside an external folder, hard disk or removable memory, if we wish.
Simply when saving it, we must indicate that the destination folder is one of the previous options that we mentioned. In this way you will be able to enjoy your project, outside of your Mac computer and in the same way, it will be compatible with any other type of operating system.
Save an unfinished iMovie project
As we had already mentioned, iMovie has the terrible defect that if our equipment suffers some kind of failure, be it power or electrical, we may lose our entire project and the effort we invested in it.
Therefore, it is necessary to know how to save an unfinished iMovie project, so as not to lose our precious work and even less our time.
Steps to save an unfinished iMovie project
If you have not finished your iMovie project, but you still want to save it, then you must follow the following steps, which we will indicate:
After having open the iMovie program on Mac, you must locate the "Project Library" option, this is located to the left of the main screen, of the same program. All the old projects that you have ever edited will also appear in it.
Then you just have to locate the project you want to save, you can also open it, to add a new clip or effect.
Then you just have to click on “share” within the same menu and then select “export movies”. In that you must enter the name and destination folder, where the project will be saved. The best thing is that you can locate said project in an easy way, so save it in an accessible folder, with a simple name, remember that the idea is to continue editing in the future.
Finally you just have to click on the “to export” that way, you will already have saved iMovie project.
Note
As possibly, after you have saved this part of the project, in the near future you will want to continue editing and adding new effects and clips, to the same project. You must constantly save any changes you make, no matter how small. Remember that iMovie has the big drawback of not automatically saving projects if they are closed unexpectedly.
You can also save each change made in the project, with the same name, so that the program automatically eliminates the previous version.
What to do if I am a Windows user?
As you should already know, iMovie is not available for Windows computers, but don't worry, because there is a video editing program, which in comparison is better than iMovie itself.
In that we recommend you to Aiseesoft Video Converter Ultimate, which is also a powerful professional video editor, which you can use inside your Windows computer without problems.
That would be all for this article! We hope that it has been to your liking and that you already know, how to save an iMovie project.