1. Connect your camera to the computer.
2. Open the iMovie application, then open an existing iMovie project or start a new project.
3. Import clips, take by take, from video camera into your iMovie project.
a. Turn camera on.
b. Set iMovie to “camera mode” by setting the slider button on the lower left area of the iMovie window to the camera icon.
c. Using the iMovie playback controls, press play button to start the tape.
d. Cue up your demo or audition.
e. When the demo/audition take starts, press the Import button to begin capturing the actor’s audition take into iMovie, and when that take finishes, press the Import button again to manually stop the capture.
Note: In iMovie Preferences, you can also set it so that iMovie will automatically grab and edit all auditions off the tape as long as you pause the camera between takes and actors. This allows you to start the tape, hit the Import button and walk away from the computer while it begins capturing and editing the auditions from the tape.
f. The captured audition clips will appear in the Clips pane at the right side of the window in iMovie. All clips that you capture will be stored here.
g. Repeat step ‘e’ to capture any additional takes from the actor’s audition.
4. Select Save project under the File menu.
5. Drag an individual clip down to lower flip strip area to begin the export process.
6. Go to file menu and select ‘Share’ or ‘Export’.
7. Along top of window, select the ‘Quicktime’ icon.
8. Drag Compress movie for: pull-down menu to select ‘Expert Settings’.
9. Click ‘Share’ or ‘Export’ button.
10. In the next ‘Save Exported File As’ window, name the new movie according to actor name and take number. Make sure your file name ends with the extension .mov. Also check to see where the file will be saved. This will come in handy when you need to upload a bunch of actors and their audition takes. (make sure you save your file with the .mov extension at the end).
a. Then, next to the 'Export: Movie to Quicktime Movie' pull down menu, click the Options… button.
11. You'll see the Movie Settings window. Under 'Video', click Settings…
a. In 'Compression Type:' menu, select MPEG-4 Video.
b. In Motion area, set Frame Rate to ‘24’ and for Key Frames type in 300 in the text field.
c. Slide the Quality pointer over to Best.
d. In the Data Rate area, click the Restrict to button and type 768 in the field before kbits/sec.
e. Then, click the OK button.
f. Under ‘Video’, now click the Size… button
i. Select ‘640 X 480 VGA’. Click the OK button.
g. Under 'Sound', click on Settings…
i. Set 'Format' to AAC, 'Channels' to Mono, ‘Rate’ to 32.000. Next to Target Bit Rate choose 32 in the dropdown menu. Then click on OK button.
h. Make sure 'Prepare for Internet Streaming' is checked and select Fast Start.
i. Click OK.
12. Click the Save button and iMovie will export and create the QuickTime movie that you can then upload as your audition file.