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Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton
I don't know how iMovie handles drag and drop, but in QTPlayer that would just create a reference movie (a small file that's dependent on the original, wherever iMovie stores that). How big was the file you dragged to his laptop? DV is always fixed at the same bitrate, about 13 GB per hour; that's the first clue you have to find.
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The name of the iMovie project was jeff, and when I dragged the clip in its entirety to my desktop, it created a 'jeff.dv' file that was 2.33gb in size, but it had a "blank page" icon instead of the icon that would indicate that it was associated with Quicktime. When I opened the jeff.dv file on my Mac, it would play in Quicktime player. On his PC laptop it wouldn't, even when manually going thru File -> Open and picking the file.
Last night I tried something else. I selected the clip in the timeline and exported it via the 'Share' function and saved it as full quality Quicktime. This created a file called jeff.dv but this file had the Quicktime icon associated with it, and was the same 2.33gb in size. I copied it over to my PC and it opened in Quicktime player. Movie Maker still couldn't import it, but I'm sure there's some freeware conversion program available.