iMovie tells me the export will take 44 hours. There must be a faster way.
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro macOS Mojave verion 10.14.6, 16 GB memory, 69.89 GB storage available of 499.9 GB. Currenly exporting the file to 2TB My Passport For Mac hard drive.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
iMovie's 44 hour export time estimate may not even be close to accurate. Also, the export speed could be slower if you have a slower computer processor, like say an i5 processor, or perhaps a slower video card. Not much you can do about that.
If you are exporting out of iMovie at Best Quality (pro res) you will get a 4x larger file size than an Mp4 export, and the export will take much longer. Should that be the case, export at the High Quality setting, instead of Best quality, to get an Mp4 export. The human eye likely won't be able to tell the difference.
-- Rich
iMovie's 44 hour export time estimate may not even be close to accurate. Also, the export speed could be slower if you have a slower computer processor, like say an i5 processor, or perhaps a slower video card. Not much you can do about that.
If you are exporting out of iMovie at Best Quality (pro res) you will get a 4x larger file size than an Mp4 export, and the export will take much longer. Should that be the case, export at the High Quality setting, instead of Best quality, to get an Mp4 export. The human eye likely won't be able to tell the difference.
-- Rich
Exactly what are you doing?
Are you copying an existing 56GB file to your external drive or are you exporting a video project from inside iMovie?
If the latter, how on earth could the file be 56GB as that would represent a project well over 12 hours long?
How can I export a 56 GB iMovie file to an external hard drive faster?
