IMovie HD to Quicktime

Hi,
I am relatively new to macs but loving every minute of it. I have completed several movies in iMovie HD (in HD) and would like to share short clips on my web site.
I purchased Quicktime 7 Pro with the aim of exporting in H.264 to hopefully maintain a high quality movie for people to view. Problem is I cannot get the movie into Quicktime to then Export/ Compress it.
Sharing direct from iMovie does not produce good quality results. When I try to open the iMovie file in Quicktime it is not recognised. I cannot drop and drag into the Quicktime icon either.
Any suggestion?

Hi Julian,
to answer that question, I can get VERY philosophical...
the advantage of Apple is: hardware + software from one manufacturer.
the disadvantage of windows machines: zillions of hard- and software combinations... you can never know, if it works for all/90/75% of all DOS users...
just some thoughts:
* the 10 year old mpeg1 can be seen even on the oldest and most exotic machines... but, a very simple compressor ...
* anything Quicktime offers - your Apple put that into a .mov container...- what the Windows user forces to install Quicktime4windows... some/many don't like that...
* third-party codecs - divx offers some very good results, but: not pre-installed on any computer (Mac/Dos); realmedia... gone.
* mpeg4 - from my p.o.v.actually the best combo of quality/usability...
have a look, what Grandmaster Dan write on his terrific website about export:
http://danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/index.shtml#quicktime

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