Unable to export new project

I've tried "sharing" a new iMovie project to YouTube, to my desktop, and to iTunes. Every time, I see the download starting, but the circle-gauge registers no progress, and the video fails to show up anywhere I've tried to export it to. When I click the circle-gauge, it indicates that it's in the process of exporting "Clip 7" to YouTube (however, Clip 7 is not the name of the video, and I attempted to upload to YouTube 8 hours ago.) Help!

MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.10

Posted on Apr 9, 2019 5:59 PM

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Posted on Apr 10, 2019 8:36 AM

Try restarting your computer while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. Now see if you can share out. Note: Sharing out to You Tube directly from iMovie can sometimes be problematic. The more reliable procedure is to share out to your desktop and then drag the movie from there into You Tube's upload window. Also, uploads to You Tube can take a long time, although not usually 8 hours.


In case that the issue is confined to just this one project, try doing and Edit/Select All, Edit/Copy, of the media in your project and then Edit/Paste the media into a newly created project. See if you can share out from the new project.


-- Rich

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Apr 10, 2019 8:36 AM in response to normanfromnewport

Try restarting your computer while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. Now see if you can share out. Note: Sharing out to You Tube directly from iMovie can sometimes be problematic. The more reliable procedure is to share out to your desktop and then drag the movie from there into You Tube's upload window. Also, uploads to You Tube can take a long time, although not usually 8 hours.


In case that the issue is confined to just this one project, try doing and Edit/Select All, Edit/Copy, of the media in your project and then Edit/Paste the media into a newly created project. See if you can share out from the new project.


-- Rich

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