How do I play my iMovie project from a pc?

I saved my imovie project to an extenal HD and now my mac died and I had to buy a pc because of low funds :-(.......how do I play my project on the pc? Unfortuantly it's saved as a .imovieproject file. on the external. Help!

You need to get a Mac. Then you need your RCPROJECT file as well as any Events or Photos that were referenced in the Movie. The RCPROJECT file is a hexadecimal file that contains the paths to the Event video clips with In and Out points, Titles, transitions, paths to music, paths to photos, etc. If you want to play it on a PC, you need to use the SHARE menu in iMovie. Share it as an h.264 file or as an MP4.
To play on a PC, get QuickTime for Windows (which is free) and play it there as is.

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