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Important: Many email services limit the file size for attachments. If the message exceeds
the maximum size allowed by your email provider, the message size in Mail appears in
red, along with the allowed limit (if Mail can get that information from the email provider).
8 To see the attachment’s estimated file size, choose your preferred Size and Compression
options, then click Summary.
9 Click Compose Message.
After rendering is complete, Mail opens and an email is created with the subject filled in
and the movie attached.
Sharing to Video Sharing Sites
You can share your Motion project by publishing it to popular movie-sharing web sites
including YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport. This section shows you how to
share to these sites.
Before using the Share command, set up an account with any of these services you plan
on using. Keep your account information handy, because you’ll need it to follow the
procedures in this section.
To publish your project to YouTube
1 Choose Share > YouTube.
2 If your account isn’t showing in the Account pop-up menu, do one of the following:
• If this is your first time publishing to YouTube via Motion, click Add, then enter your
account name. (If you don’t have a YouTube account, go to http://www.youtube.com
to create one.)
• If you have more than one YouTube account, choose the one to publish to from the
Account pop-up menu.
3 Enter the requested information:
• Password: Enter your YouTube account password.
• Category: Choose a YouTube content category from this pop-up menu.
• Make this movie private: Select whether to make the movie private.
If you select this checkbox, only the contacts you specify in your YouTube account
settings (via your online YouTube account page) can see the movie.
• Title: Enter the movie name you want viewers to see.
• Description: Enter information about your movie for viewers to read.
• Tags: Enter keywords that viewers can use to find your movie.
Note: All the above items are required.
1398 Chapter 24 Sharing Motion Projects