Hi, Yes, .mov and .mp4 are both fine for completed projects. Both are readable by QuickTime and both are upload able to YouTube. In normal circumstances, Those do sound like completed projects, so moving them to the external should be fine. There may still be project components left within your iMovie library, but they will not affect the end product that you’ve created. These are left in iMovie in case you wish to redo anything. They are good to be deleted if you don’t think that you’ll ever need those original clips. yes, you should be able to do the cmd-c then cmd-option-v the .mov and .mp4 files over to the external. Try it with a not-important file first though as I have seen things fails on occasion when using the move across volumes. This was long in the past, so it may be totally fine now, but it’s always good to test on a nothing file. If you wish to test it on one of your movies, just duplicate one of them and cmd-c/cmd-option-v the duplicate. If it goes across fine, then you’re good to go. In case you’re not familiar with the duplicate command, just navigate to the item you wish to duplicate, then press cmd-d. It will make a copy of the original file with the word “Copy” added to the end.
HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jun 8, 2021, at 7:23 PM, FIOGKOS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim, again thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I will save > the email as I am not ready to do all of this quite yet. I’m thinking in a > few days. I may have more questions, I hope you don’t mind. > I read your email twice and I have two very simple questions. I have not > uploaded anything to YouTube yet, I have saved my movies on my iPhone > therefore some of the files have the extension.MOV, a few other movies I have > saved on the Mac therefore the extension is MP4 > Does this matter? I mean the fact that these movies have different extension > names? Voiceover does announce them as QuickTime movies. They have been saved > after editing. If I move them to the external drive will I lose anything > because of the library’s? > My second question is just I want to confirm if I copy the files and then use > the command option v will be moved to the drive and leave no trace on my Mac? > this is the point of buying an external hard drive, I want to fill up the > external drive and empty out the iMac drive. Thank you again for any help in > advance > Regards Zoe > > > God the father chose her > God the sun dwelt in her > God the spirit overshadowed her > Most holy mother of God save us through your intercessions > Twitter > @FiogkosZoe > > Love Isn't butterflies in your stomach, love is the heart beat you feel when > he's late > > >> On Jun 8, 2021, at 1:30 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> With respect to formatting the drive. It kind of depends on if it is >> already formatted from the factory. If it is, it may be formatted and show >> up on your Desktop, but be formatted in a format that is read only to the >> Mac. I suggest that you do the following before connecting the drive to >> your Mac: >> >> • go to the Desktop. >> • press cmd-comma to bring up Desktop Preferences. >> • if the General tab is not selected, select it. >> • make sure that the checkbox to show external drives on your Desktop is >> checked. >> • close this window. >> • connect the drive. >> • follow the prompts if any appear. >> • if the drive simply shows up on the Desktop, then do the following extra >> steps. >> • make sure you’re in the Finder by pressing VO-shift-d. >> • press cmd-shift-u to open the Utilities folder. >> • open the Disk Utility app. >> • in the table, locate and select your external drive. >> • stop interacting with the table and VO-left to the Toolbar. Interact with >> it. >> • locate the Erase button and VO-space to activate. >> • give the drive a name and format it as either APFS or MacOS Extended >> (Journaled). Then press the Erase button. >> >> After it has finished, press the Done button and quit Disk Utility. You >> will now have a properly formatted drive for your Mac. No matter which >> method you use, do make sure that it is formatted for the Mac as either >> MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS for best results on your Mac. >> >> Regarding iMovie and copying, when you create and edit these videos for >> YouTube, have you saved the finished version on your internal drive, or just >> uploaded directly to YouTube? It is better to keep a version locally, as >> well as uploading to YouTube in my experience. Now, if you have the >> exported finished copy, then that one is easy to copy and paste to the >> external drive. The actual iMovie product is more complicated as it is >> comprised of both library and iMovie Project components, unless things have >> changed lately. The drive icon will show up on your Desktop if you set the >> Finder Preferences as I’ve suggested above, so copying between the internal >> Macintosh HD and the external is easy-peasy by the regular copy and paste >> processes. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later… >> >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Jamf Certified Tech >> Apple Professional Learning Specialist >> Apple Teacher >> (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Jun 8, 2021, at 7:41 AM, FIOGKOS <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everybody hope you’re doing well. I have a 2013 late I Mac running >>> Catalina with a 1 TB hard drive. >>> I am starting my own YouTube channel with cooking episodes. I am using >>> iMovie to edit and join my Clips together. I am using my iPhone to tape my >>> cooking shows and transferring the clips to the iMac. I have finished 14 >>> episodes and my iMac hard drive is already half full so I bought a 4 TB >>> hard drive from the Apple store. The man at the Apple Store told me the >>> hard drive needs formatting but he said that when I plug it in the >>> on-screen instructions are pretty straightforward. My first question is >>> that correct? Do I need to know anything about using the drive for the >>> first time? My second question is the following I want to move my iMovie >>> files and some text documents onto the hard drive is it as easy as copying >>> the files and then using the move command to the drive? 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