Share menu

The Share menu contains commands for exporting your project. You can export high-quality movies and image sequences, send projects to the Media Browser for use in other Apple applications, or publish to popular sharing websites such as YouTube and Facebook. You can also create your own custom export settings. See Share Motion projects overview.

• Apple Devices: Publishes your project to iTunes, allowing you to watch it on Apple TV, or to download it to iPad, iPhone, or iPod. See Share to Apple devices.

• DVD: Lets you burn your project to a DVD or to a disk image. See Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, AVCHD disc, or disk image.

• Blu-ray: Lets you burn your project to a Blu-ray disc, an AVCHD disc, or a disk image. See Create a DVD, Blu-ray disc, AVCHD disc, or disk image.

• Email: Opens your mail application and attaches your project as a rendered movie file. See Share to email.

• YouTube: Publishes your project to YouTube. See Publish to video-sharing websites.

• Facebook: Publishes your project to Facebook. See Publish to video-sharing websites.

• Vimeo: Publishes your project to Vimeo. See Publish to video-sharing websites.

• CNN iReport: Publishes your project to CNN iReport. See Publish to video-sharing websites.

• Export Movie: Exports your project as a QuickTime movie to a Finder folder to use in other projects and applications or to distribute manually. See Export a QuickTime movie.

• Export Selection to Movie: Exports the current selection as a QuickTime movie to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie.

• Export Audio: Exports only the audio portion your project as an audio file to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie.

• Save Current Frame: Saves the frame currently visible in the Canvas as a still image file to a Finder folder. See Export a still image.

• Export Image Sequence: Exports your project as an image sequence to a Finder folder. See Export a QuickTime movie.

• Export for HTTP Live Streaming: Exports a QuickTime reference movie for web hosting. See Export for HTTP Live Streaming.

• Send to Compressor: Renders your project through Compressor, allowing you to further customize your export settings and output a single movie file to a Finder folder. See Export using Compressor.

• Export using Compressor Settings: Renders your project using a predefined export setting (created in Compressor). See Export using Compressor.