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Hello since my iMovie updates yesterday and it keeps crashing during export. When I click on export it crashes. I did re start the app and the MAC. I checked my Mac and it is up to date.
Please advice how I can export my movie or if I can export it from the folder not the app.
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With crashing issues, nothing to do but try a few things to see if you can isolate the conflict.
Try shutting down your Mac and rebooting in Safe Mode. (See the Finder help menu for directions.) Once everything loads, immediately shut down again and reboot in normal mode. See if that cures the problem.
Possibly there is some corruption in the movie that is causing the crash. Or the issue is confined to one project. Try creating a new project and populate it with different media from the first project and see if you can successfully export.
Check to see that you have sufficient internal drive space for iMovie to operate efficiently, and sufficient space on the destination drive to receive the movie.
You can also try creating a new library, copying your project to it, and seeing if it will share out from there.
Finally, if still having crashing issues, try redownloading iMovie. To update/redownload iMovie 10, drag your iMovie 10 app from the Applications folder into the trash, but do not empty the trash. Sign in to the app store and open your purchases folder by clicking on your name at the bottom of the app store side bar. You will see your purchases displayed, including iMovie 10. Redownload/update iMovie from there. If not successful, drag your present iMovie app out of the trash and return it to the Applications folder.
All else failing, try contacting Apple Support. The techs there have the capability of remotely accessing your computer that we cannot do here. To contact apple support click on the Contact Support item in the upper right hand corner of this forum’s screen. Navigate to a place where you can enter your phone number.
-- Rich
With crashing issues, nothing to do but try a few things to see if you can isolate the conflict.
Try shutting down your Mac and rebooting in Safe Mode. (See the Finder help menu for directions.) Once everything loads, immediately shut down again and reboot in normal mode. See if that cures the problem.
Possibly there is some corruption in the movie that is causing the crash. Or the issue is confined to one project. Try creating a new project and populate it with different media from the first project and see if you can successfully export.
Check to see that you have sufficient internal drive space for iMovie to operate efficiently, and sufficient space on the destination drive to receive the movie.
You can also try creating a new library, copying your project to it, and seeing if it will share out from there.
Finally, if still having crashing issues, try redownloading iMovie. To update/redownload iMovie 10, drag your iMovie 10 app from the Applications folder into the trash, but do not empty the trash. Sign in to the app store and open your purchases folder by clicking on your name at the bottom of the app store side bar. You will see your purchases displayed, including iMovie 10. Redownload/update iMovie from there. If not successful, drag your present iMovie app out of the trash and return it to the Applications folder.
All else failing, try contacting Apple Support. The techs there have the capability of remotely accessing your computer that we cannot do here. To contact apple support click on the Contact Support item in the upper right hand corner of this forum’s screen. Navigate to a place where you can enter your phone number.
-- Rich
Sometimes updating can cause preferences to be corrupted. Try deleting and resetting the preferences. To do that, open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and select 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. Deleting preferences is a safe procedure that will not cause data loss or disruption to your projects.
-- Rich
Does not work for me ... and sorry in an international context this is not good having to jump between language settings ... sorry, please Apple any guidance on how to get iMovie to work ... desperately need to get some videos out.
Solution for me was:
Change the region to United States.
System preferences / Language & Region / General Tab / Region: United States from dropdown menu.
Hi Rich
i tried deleting the preferences.
I still can’t export my video. When I click on it, the app crashes. (Photo attached).
Its the same issue with my MacBook Pro 2020 Intel version and its been happening since before iMovie latest update.
I tried everything and not work ... thanks Apple ..... I have a MBP Pro M1 . I wrote also a post on this
Did this issue occur on your MacBook before mac OS or iMovie update?
Nothing solving the crashes when trying to export. Bye youtube I guess. Thanks for this update which serves no purpose apart from breaking the app.
Is there no other way to export project?
This thread has the answer. Thanks for sharing .
You are very welcome. Glad it worked for you.
-- Rich
iMovie keeps crashing during export after updating to 10.2.4
