Q: iMovie '11 fails to export movies
Hi, I have just recently come across this issue; iMovie '09 and '11 have both exported movies without a problem before. I'm currently using iMove '11, with external hard disks for storage and scratch space, and I need to export four projects in HD, each about an hour long.
When I attempt to export an HD movie (using the "export movie" tab in the "share" menu) iMovie appears to process the movie normally, giving a reasonable time estimate and everything, but when it is finished the movie file is nowhere to be found and iMovie does not show that it has been shared at all. There are no error messages, freezes, or crashes. The exported movie simply seems to have vanished, or never been made.
The only issue I can think of, is that maybe this is due to using external hard disks for storage. I use two of them, one with all of my iMovie projects and movies and one that I am exporting the finished product to. It cannot be a FAT32 issue, since they are all using OSX formats.
Has anyone ever had this problem before?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Mid 2009, 2.53GHz, 4GBs, 256GB SSD.
Posted on May 30, 2011 7:23 AM