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Can't export file from iMovie.app on Mac

I thought a Mac Studio with the Ultra chip would make short work of a 5min video presentation but, alas, no. After updating iMovie it no longer crashes on export, it just gives export errors ranging from CompressorKit errors to write errors. Before the software update it had at least created a partial file and gotten some of the work into a video, but I should be able to get iMovie to encode things it has no trouble playing.


Does anyone have troubleshooting tips? MacOS Ventura running iMovie 10.3.6.

Mac Studio (2022)

Posted on Jun 23, 2023 1:11 PM

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Jun 23, 2023 2:29 PM in response to sea_dragons

The Compression Kit error can be a real pain.


Try starting up in Safe Mode and then rebooting in normal mode. That has worked for some folks.


You might take a look at these links that discuss the problem, with solutions that work for some but not others.


com.apple.Compressor.CompressorKit.ErrorD… - Apple Community


Troubleshooting iMovie issues in macOS Hi… - Apple Community


-- Rich


Jun 23, 2023 6:33 PM in response to sea_dragons

UPDATE: Just updating iMovie was apparently not enough. Somewhere along the line MacOS had downloaded but not installed a software update and allowing _that_ to install was apparently the secret sauce to getting the app and the frameworks in synch again. After the OS was _also_ updated, encoding worked better.


It's odd that encoding worked before the iMovie update then broke until the OS update. I thought part of the point of having frameworks that could be embedded into apps and object oriented software that inherited improvements as they became available was that you didn't end up with the equivalent of DLLs out of synch with apps and the like, because the app you launched always linked at runtime with the frameworks and services that supported it. It might be worth warning people against software versions that require an OS update to function as expected, so people can plan accordingly: lots of folks get treed with an OS version they can't update due to software that breaks on update, so warnings about software from which one can't downgrade to a working version would be valuable to users.

Can't export file from iMovie.app on Mac

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