IMovie export to Ogg Theora

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After I finish editing a movie with iMovie '09 under Mac OS X 10.6.4, is there a way to export the final product to Ogg Theora format? OR, is there a way to convert an already exported movie to Ogg Theora easily?

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As part of Dive Into HTML5, Mark Pilgrim gives two options:

Encoding Ogg Video With Firefogg
Batch Encoding Ogg Video With ffmpeg2theora

One or both of those should work for you.

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IOS – How to get an (iMovie-created) movie in the Videos app into iOS iMovie to edit it

iMovie only supports the H.264 format, and will only load videos from two places:

Camera Roll
Synced iPhoto Library via iTunes (Photos Tab → Sync Photos from iPhoto → Include Videos)

As you've noticed, videos in your iTunes → Movies folder will only sync to the Videos app, and will not appear in iMovie.

The process is not at all convenient, but here's a video detailing how to convert a video to the right format on a Mac, and then get it into iMovie on an iPad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8-sDmD_1Y. He uses an app called StreamClip Video Converter to convert to H.264. You might be able to get away with exporting that format from iMovie on your Mac instead. iMovie is picky about the format though. If you have trouble, try to reproduce the settings in the video exactly.

Using ffmpeg on MOV files created by iMovie

You may try MPEG StreamClip also. There is Batch mode — cmd+b

But it's hard to tell based on your information why Handbrake was not able to help you.

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Using ffmpeg on MOV files created by iMovie

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