Saving movies in good quality and small filesize.

As far as i can tell the only formats you can save a movie in imovie hd are either huge in filesize or really bad in quality. The solution i've come up with is to "share" the movie in full quality, which with an 8 min video makes a file bigger than 1gb. I take that file and convert it to mp4 with a program called MoviePod( find on versiontracker.com), and then i have a file of about 40mb which actually looks good even if i view it in fullscreen on my "15. Anybody have any other tips about this stuff, or have actually figured out how to get decent file sizes directly from imovie hd? By the way, are the more advanced video-editing programs from Apple any more flexible when it comes to this?
cheers.

By the way, are the more advanced video-editing programs from Apple any more flexible when it comes to this?
those and iMovie rely mostly on the Quciktime engine, which cares for all kind of media on a Mac system...
share
Quicktime
Expert Settings
.. hit button...
you're confronted to this dialog:
it offers in the drop-down menu all QTrelated codecs, plus many of them offer "options" (size, bitrates, fps, ...)
e.g. using 320x240, motionjpeg, 75% quality, 15fps will reduce your file size dramatically by keeping an acceptable quality (video+grafics)...
.. and you'll find a mpeg4 codec too..
but as you, I prefer the mpeg4 algorithm used in a 3rd party app, iSquint (relies on open source ffmpeg)
or, you use the mpeg4 encoder as part of the 3ivx project.....
Compressor, part of FCP/DVDSPsuite allows much more, elaborated options.. but =>$$$$

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