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iPhone 4 + iMovie = Crashes the iMovie App and does not export...

Hello fellow Apple Customers,

I recently purchased iMovie for the iPhone 4 and I am having some issues I can't seem to resolve. When I try to export a project to either Medium 360p, Large or HD 720P the application starts exporting but the exporting bar just freeze and then the iMovie application crashes, sometimes it even reboots the iPhone.

Anyone have any idea what is going on? I noticed that this happens if the project is longer than 43 seconds, if the project is less then 43 seconds then it successfully exports my projects into my camera roll but if the project is longer than 43 seconds it does not and even causes the app. to crash.

I am dissapointed in the performance of the iMovie on the iPhone 4, everything else works flawlessly with the iPhone.

iMac, iPhone 4 iOS 4

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 5:41 PM

84 replies

mrsmiley

Level 1

19 points

Jul 2, 2010 3:55 PM in response to The Pittmans

Yeah... I think you guys need to calm down. This is not a feature of the application, it's a bug. Apple's releasing a document to explain the issue doesn't mean they're not going to fix it. I'm actually surprised they publicly acknowledged the issue so quickly, and am glad they did, since now I know not to work with pictures until it's resolved.

For those wondering, you can easily get your money back by clicking on your purchase history from your iTunes store account, and choosing "report a problem" at the bottom. But I don't see the point since this issue will eventually be fixed, and then iMovie will be just as useful as it is now for those that don't use pictures.

joelm1

Level 1

9 points

Jul 4, 2010 12:48 PM in response to mrsmiley

I've found different problem that also leads to a crash when exporting. I added multiple titles with style of "opening". They all ended up with the same location even when I set each location manually. When I removed all of them the movie was able to export at 720p. (it does contain about 10 pictures from the phone's camera)

Though now can't put any title on the starting clip.

NightOps

Level 1

0 points

Jul 6, 2010 12:35 PM in response to Roly Vento

I've had the same problem when using the Travel theme. Oddly enough, when I switched over to the 'Playful' theme, it worked just fine...did not change ANYTHING. Anyone else?

Jul 6, 2010 12:38 PM in response to Roly Vento

What Vulgarity I never............................

mdntblu

Level 1

4 points

Jul 6, 2010 1:23 PM in response to Roly Vento

Went through one of my iMovie projects and removed about 4 or 5 pics and tried export again and it's working. Not sure how many pics I'm left with (I didn't count). Stinks because most of the pics are of people and the video is just of the event. Want the pics to mix it up a little.

Just have to wait for update.

Jul 6, 2010 1:53 PM in response to Roly Vento

The "fix" (just use fewer pictures) is pretty lousy. Right up there with "just hold the phone different".

Here's a workaround that I found...if you have long stretches of pictures to include in your video, break them into separate projects. I had a vacation video I made that ran 3:34, but it had 3 spots of about 8 pictures a piece interspersed. I just created 3 new projects using only those pics, created an HD video of each, and removed the pics from my big project and put the new video in.

It's cumbersome, but it'll do in a pinch...at least until Apple releases a real fix.

Jul 6, 2010 2:20 PM in response to mrsmiley

Not a fix? Am I missing something here? The article says to "update to version 1.0.1 or later." Did it say something else before? It does say it was "last modified" today, so maybe this is a new resolution.

mrsmiley

Level 1

19 points

Jul 6, 2010 2:25 PM in response to J.K. ROFLing

Yeah Apple just released a fix today! That was fast... anyone test it out?

Jul 6, 2010 2:56 PM in response to mrsmiley

Just seeing that iMovie 1.0.1 came out. The notes say "Improved reliability when exporting movies containing photos". Have to get to WIFI to get it installed, but this is promising.

joeyride

Level 1

0 points

Jul 6, 2010 3:30 PM in response to Roly Vento

Just download the new versino of the software and it fixes everything. I had the same issues with a 3:30 movie that crashed the iPhone the new 1.0.1 software fixed it perfect.y

Jul 6, 2010 4:46 PM in response to mrsmiley

The update fixed the issues I was having with image-heavy movies! Thanks Apple! 😀

ivan54

Level 4

2,844 points

Jul 7, 2010 5:10 AM in response to joeyride

Good catch joeyride,

Looks like they updated http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3393
to reflect the fix.

Resolution
Update to version 1.0.1 or later.