Sharing imovie clips with pc users

Hi there - I am trying to send movie clips to my pc using family using 'share', but they cannot open them. Is it possible to do this? Many thanks!

welcome rutheep to the  boards...
you're running into the trouble with +'there's no universal video format'+ ...
your options are:
a) ask your family to install 'Quicktime for Windows', available for free at apple.com ...
b) purchase a licence >50$ from www.flip4mac.com, and choose .wmv as output ...
c) burn a nice DVD with iDVD, send it by snailmail.. quality is much better..
d) playout back to tape, send tape by snailmail ...
e) convert your iM project using this (click) settings, and upload to Youtube...

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