Imovie 11 export problem. Not enough room in Heap Zone. I have 32GB of RAM!

Hi

Lack of memory usually referes to two things
• RAM - which You got enough of
• Start-up Hard Disk

Less than 1.5Gb - few things works and if so in a Bizzar way
< 5Gb extreamly slow
< 10Gb slow and un-stable
I set for a 25Gb minimum

This is due to that Mac OS is not Mac OS since Mac OS 9.0.2

Mac OS X and on-wards - is a sort of UNIX and behaves like this with a burst of temp files to boot hard disk
So does also iMovie or iDVD function by use of temp files.
These needs to be stored somwhere - and boot hard disk is only place for them
(can't be addressed any where else)

So this space is vital !

Yours Bengt W

How many swap files do you have active right now? Have you tried rebooting?

This might help us...
Right-click on a clip in your Event file. Select "Reveal in Finder".
Right-click on the clip in the Finder. Select "Open With...QuickTime Player"
Hold down the command key while typing I to open the Inspector. (Or select WINDOW/INPSPECTOR from the QT Player Menu Bar).

In the inspector, tell us everything that is listed next to the work "Format:"

That is odd. I would have expected 1280x720. or 1920x1080. Or 960x540.

But I was suspicious of the sound...and it looks OK to me.

By the way, it would appear that none of the regulars here have encountered your issue, so one option you could consider is calling Apple. There is a contact us number at the bottom right of this page. The Apple support people are much more likely to have encountered this. They may even have a book that tells them what the error message really means.

No version of iMovie is 64 bit aware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamicmemoryallocation
Can you test while logged in under a different User account?

I have iMovie '11 and cannot create a HD 1080p movie. I've got a 27" iMac with a 2.93 GHz Intel Core i7 processor (I purchased this computer last month). I tried like crazy to export the HD movie last night (it's one of the new trailers -- the one that looks like Indiana Jones & it's less than 1 minute long) but no dice due to a "HEAP" error. I tried to export the movie a couple of times this morning. It went a little further in the rendering until the HEAP error popped up again (this was from a fresh reboot). The really odd thing is that when I render it in HD 720p, my movie clips are black. No video. The built-in trailer stuff from iMovie '11 is there, just none of my clips show up (they're all black).

I've got the same "not enough room in heap zone" error when creating a trailer in iMovie '11. Brand new Mac Pro. TONS of free RAM and HD space. TONS. Only thing running is iMovie. I can "share to media browser" just fine but get this error when trying to finalize the project.

Got the same issue...

Edited a movie yesterday. When I reach the export part, it start to do its thing and after a while, I get a error 333, "not enough room in heap zone" .... and it just stopped...

Tried rebooting, only iMovie running... nothing helping...

What computer is this? How much space is left on the system drive? How much RAM? How are you exporting?

Macbook Air, first gen, 2g ram, 30G free space on hard drive. It is actually the first time I am trying to export with iMovie'11. The video was imported to iMovie using the '11 version.

Never had issue with previous version of iMovie. I export to desktop in quicktime format using pre setting portable (best for iPhone/iPad)

Actually, managed to solve my issue by renaming the movie I was trying to export... Magic! And it's not like the original name had special caracteres....

I was having the same issue of "Not enough room in Heap Zone" and I figured it out... I have recently added some clips to my events library (200 clips to be exact). I noticed that the clips did not import correctly so I deleted them from my User/Movies/iMovie Events folder reopened imovie and it fixed the issue. I re-imported the clips and everything is working fine.