NO output in 1080p only 720p & "Not enough room in Heap Zone" ERROR

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NO output in 1080p only 720p & "Not enough room in Heap Zone" ERROR

i am using a 8GB RAM Macbook Pro with over 1TB of 7200rpm drive space with iMovie11 and snow leopard 10.6.4

editing together clips from Canon 5DM2 in 1080/30p and used a template within new iMovie11
upon exporting in any of the new featured avenues, 1080p crashes with "Not enough room in Heap Zone" error message and no explanations anywhere.

i tried updating Java updates and even went as far as reinstalling my snow leopard 10.6 DVD (took me all of Football Sunday and still having to reinstall my programs.....)
That did not solve the 1080p problem

at least now 720p worked for a tiny 1.5 minutes video i made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UodqTrheVXc

still, no having the 1080p working defeats the terrific features of the new iMovie11 system.
the noise suppression worked fairly well, as you can hear.

please,
someone out there!
help..........!

paul

Apple MacBook Pro 17 2009 & 2007, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 25, 2010 10:43 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 25, 2010 11:21 AM in response to Paul Chiu

Now you've made me hungry!

How long is your full movie?

Have you tried FILE/FINALIZE MOVIE ?

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Answer 2

Oct 25, 2010 12:40 PM in response to Paul Chiu

Storage Allocator Errors

-108 memFullErr Ran out of memory [not enough room
in heap zone]

What else is running???

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Answer 3

Oct 25, 2010 12:59 PM in response to Paul Chiu

"Not enough room in Heap Zone"

Restarting the Mac releases used RAM (which is where the "Heap Zone" is). Try that just prior to using iMovie.

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Paul Chiu Author

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Oct 25, 2010 2:20 PM in response to AppleMan1958

after unsuccessful with a 6 minutes 1080p version, I cut it all the way down to the 1 minute plus you see at 720p

i did try file/finalize movie
it created some 2mb file on my drive with junk.

thanks

paul

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Paul Chiu Author

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Oct 25, 2010 2:21 PM in response to Lennart Thelander

I tried that as it worked in the 2 prior versions of iMovie but not so far with the current iMovie11.

i hope some updates are release soon

thanks

paul

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Paul Chiu Author

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Oct 25, 2010 2:22 PM in response to Daniel Slagle

Just iMovie11
i have plenty of RAM at 8GB and lots of hard drive space

is there a way to see what HEAP space is or how i can clear whatever space is needed?

thanks

paul

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cuban2

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Oct 25, 2010 3:12 PM in response to Paul Chiu

I am having the same problems with the new imovie as well. is there any one that might know what is going on?

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Answer 8

Oct 25, 2010 3:13 PM in response to cuban2

If no one on the forum knows, you can contact Apple at the number at the "Contact Us" Link at the bottom right.

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Answer 9

Oct 26, 2010 12:04 AM in response to Paul Chiu

is there a way to see what HEAP space is?

In "Activity Monitor" you can see how much RAM is free and how much is used. (The heap resides in RAM).

how i can clear whatever space is needed?

By restarting the Mac.
You have lots of RAM, so if restarting doesn't help then there is most likely a bug in iMovie. That bug may cause iMovie to request a gazillion bytes of RAM from the OS and the OS responds: NO way!

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Answer 10

Oct 26, 2010 12:32 AM in response to AppleMan1958

I have less memory than you do and am not running into those type of issues with my 1080 projects.

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Answer 11

Jan 10, 2011 8:59 AM in response to Paul Chiu

I have the same problem with 8 GB RAM in my 21" imac 3.06 GHZ and I have a 6 min 108 movie I want to export.

I called Apple Support and they wasted 10 minutes of my life. We exported small 30 second movies at 720 and 30 second movies at 1080, but that wasn't my problem my problem is imovie 11 wont let me export a 6 minute movie at 1080!

They have a bug... Apple please fix it!

I am currently moving my event and project to an external hard drive to see if that works...

(ANGRY...)

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Answer 12

Tom Wolsky

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Jan 10, 2011 9:02 AM in response to mr.castillo

Please report the details of your issue to feedback. There is no one from Apple here.

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Answer 13

Oct 20, 2011 5:01 AM in response to Paul Chiu

HEAP ZONE ERROR SOLVED!

I had the same problem and it drove me yompy.

I finally figured it out.

The heap zone is the hard drive and the "not enough room" is really refering to "not enough contiguous space".

I optimized my volume on the drive and it took me from MB of Contiguous Free Space (though there were 500 GB of it total) up to GBs of Contiguous Free Space.

I now no longer receive the same warning, ever.

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Answer 14

elikness

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Oct 21, 2011 1:31 PM in response to s14ScottD

Now THAT is interesting. I would never have thought of the drive being fragmented and causing this issues. Thanks for posting this back to the message thread. Nice work s14ScottD!

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Answer 15

Nov 14, 2011 4:45 PM in response to Paul Chiu

s14scottD how do you optimized the volume on the drive on a laptop? I can't take this error anymore

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