# Question for Mac brains about iMovie **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-mac-brains-about-imovie/222569 "2004-01-04T02:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sarah23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sarah23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah23)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-mac-brains-about-imovie/222569/1 "2004-01-04T02:34:31Z")
I have the most recent version (I think) of iMovie and I was wondering: if I export a file I made to my desktop as an “email” quicktime file, and email it to a PC/Windows user, would they be able to open it? I think I tried this once and it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo\_the\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mojo\_the\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo_the_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-mac-brains-about-imovie/222569/2 "2004-01-04T02:54:09Z")
If your friend has QuickTime installed, it should be no problem. ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-mac-brains-about-imovie/222569/3 "2004-01-05T03:29:01Z")
you might want to use the .qt suffix after the name so windows knows which programme to use ---
**Author:** ![Sarah23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sarah23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah23)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-mac-brains-about-imovie/222569/4 "2004-01-05T13:28:39Z")
The user I sent it to said that it opened in QT, but the screen was black and there wasn’t any sound (and the little bar moved along like it was playing).