imovie error code -108

I do have the full HD format. So that isnt the solution. Thanks for all the answers.

I can export a movie of 3 minutes (full hd). 3 minutes is the maximum time. The movie is 34 minutes long. I try to export the movie in parts and load them again in 1 project. I will let you know if this works.

It is strange because when I had my macbook air in the beginning, it was no problem to export a 30 min movie. (the movie files where on a external harddrive). Now I created more room on my harddrive, I stoped all programms and I can only export 3 minutes.

Maybe it is indead the defragmentation? is there a free programm for lion?

For me, no problem of fragmentation. My events and my project are on an external HD on a specific partition (500 GO), connected to iMac with FW800. Nothing other. This partition was erase before copying events and project.

The problem of err 108 seams linked to the last iMovie version which appear just after Lion. Why? In spring, i've build a movie (35 minutes) with no particular problems, with a good quality (no trames...).

I imported my Imovie project into final cut pro and I don't have a problem anymore. The output file is 30 gb for 30 minutes of video. Memory or what so ever was no problem to make a video now on the same system. Now I am sure that it is a bug in Imovie. Apple, shame on you!

Good, very good. Apple offer three days before an update for "pro codecs" ; in these codecs : pro res (FCP) and others, whose AIC - codec used by iMovie. i don't try to export from iMovie. Maybe, i'll try today to see if this update corrects the bug.

I also imported my iMovie project in FCP X. The clips in iMovie are encode with the AIC codec. There are these encoded clips which are imported in FCP X. If the quality is bad in iMovie (trames...), she's the same in FCP X. So, i decided to rebuild entirely my movie (a documentary feature about Guatemala - 1h05) in FCP from the original clips of my camcorder). This work is in progress. The clips with bad quality in iMovie are now in a good quality (encoded with "pro res" codec).

You can see a quicklook of my work on my site http://magnijura.free.fr

This site presents my country, my studies about climate, also presentations of my travels. I'll add today a page about Guatemala with slideshow and extracts of my movie. http://magnijura.free/escap/Eguatemala.html

I had a similar problem, iMovie suddenly stopped exporting my movies. I had enough memory (16GB) and hard drive so the problem was not that either. I restarted my computer and the problem solved!

I know it looks like a pc solution but that's what worked for me.

I had also error -108 troubles with my presentations and made a lot of tests.

I did 22 seconds presentation made of star wars scroll effect and globe effect. It was impossible to export it in full HD on Mac Air (error -108).

There was a lot of free hard disk space, there was nothing else running, system was restartet etc. Nothing helped.

Finally I went to Apple shop and asked to render my project on bigger Mac and they did.

The most sensible option is export project using QuickTime. When it does not work try to export project without QuickTime and after that transcode your mov with MPEG Streamclip to mp4 which works on most of home and mobile devices (PS3, mobile phones etc.). When this does not work just go to Apple store and ask to export your project on bigger Mac.

It is wery fair solution i think, Apple f... up this soft so they have to export project for me up till they will fix all bugs.

I think (but I'm not sure yet) that the problems is related to Texts we are making in project. Probably some char codes cause wrong memory allocation or something. Some projects that I changed texts were suddenly exported and some stopped.

I have the same problem. I am trying to export a 16' movie in fullHD . At the end I receive a message including error -108! while all is ok when I export at 720p . I tried all the tricks I read in the forum but nothing changed.

This is my first MAC experience after 20 years of Windows !

This is very sad experience (for me too) but try to correct or write once again texts you are probably using at your iMovie project. In my tests I made 3 still pictures (30 seconds) slideshow that was impossible to render because of error-108.

Everything in Mac works much better than iMovie. iMovie has amazing possibilities and very bad quality because of serious bugs.

You are right. I eliminate three still pictures and all was ok, while the "very efficient" official support center told me that it was a memory problem and I had only to reduce the dimension of the movie !

Thank You

I tried what you said...

Had only iMovie opened, and about 2,4gb of free memory...

Still got the same problem... error -108...

I'm starting to think this machine isn't powerfull enough to do this or iMovie has a really big problem!

Also starting to lose hope and becoming less fan of Apple products!

Thanks

elikness wrote:

There was one person who posted that indicated it might be related to how much contiguous (unfragmented) hard drive space was available on the hard drive. I don't know if I can find that Discussion Thread again, but I will look through my bookmarks and edit this posting if I find it in time. His solution was to use the Apple Care Hardware Test disk he got after purchasing Apple Care. It comes with a copy of Tech Tool (which is a suite of disk repair utitlities and performance optimizers). One part of the Tech Tool program will go through and rearrange the files that sit on your disk so you have lots and lots of contiguous open blocks of storage on the hard drive. In his case it made all the difference and 'memory' for his case was I guess 'virtual memory' being stored as a file on the internal hard drive.

Okay, found the discussion thread I was looking for and here's the link:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2626087

Tech Tool Pro 6 - Volume Optimization

I don't really think this is the problem, since I bought my Macbook Pro a week ago and haven't installed anything or really used my HD.

I'll try doing your recomendation anyways.

Thanks

chrisenbianca wrote:

I imported my Imovie project into final cut pro and I don't have a problem anymore. The output file is 30 gb for 30 minutes of video. Memory or what so ever was no problem to make a video now on the same system. Now I am sure that it is a bug in Imovie. Apple, shame on you!

I agree...

Shame on you Apple...

Everyday that I can't find a solution for this error -108 makes me less and less Apple fan!

so i've done everything....it doestn work...and com'on...i got a 3 Minutes clip, that includes 2 Short movies with small resolution. No effect...nothing special...still the -108 error... With some music software i make huge projects with 80 layers, effects and everything....even the applestore just sad: It's a RAM Problem...i'm serious...thats a MAC...i didn't spent that money for Error -108...even if everything else just works fine for me......i'm going again to the store...i tried to finalize a project with 3!!!! Pictures including a song.... 30 seconds....-108...are u kidding me???

Same problem here on a brand new iMac i7 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD. This is my first Apple after 25 years of Microsoft. It will be my last if I can't export my HD movie I've been working on for the last few weeks. It's not a memory issue because iMovie only uses 3GB in my case.

What have you actually tried of all the suggestions in this thread?