iMovie on iPad 2 will not export to camera roll

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iMovie on iPad 2 will not export to camera roll

I just put together a 6 1/2 minute iMovie on my iPad 2, and I cannot export it to the camera roll (in any resolution). There are a lot of videos, photos (taken with three different Canon digital cameras, panoramic pictures created with the Autostitch application, and photo montages created with the Montage application. The videos include very long segments (1 minute plus) of which I am only using 6-7 seconds. The progress bar when attempting to export shows no progress, even after hours of working on the video. Occasionaly, iMovie says it cannot export the movie.

Any ideas about what is wrong?

I can export simple, small movies, but this was a pretty ambitious project, and I'm not having any luck with it.

Albert

iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jul 5, 2011 9:45 AM

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Answer 1

sebseb81

Level 1

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Jul 7, 2011 6:39 AM in response to newenglandrocks

I have a similar problem, even though my project is not as complicated. All my videos were shot on an iPod Touch, and I have a couple of photos (one from the iPod, two from a regular camera). And then after iMovie fails to export, it also completely crashes.

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Answer 2

turingtest2

Level 10

278,039 points

Jul 7, 2011 8:03 AM in response to newenglandrocks

Not sure that it will make a difference but the current iOS build is 4.3.3, perhaps it is worth updating the iPad (assuming of course your details posted above are correct).

Probably a good idea to export all projects to iTunes, then copy them to your computer so that you can try removing and reinstalling the app should nothing else work.

tt2

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Answer 3

Aug 17, 2011 1:27 PM in response to newenglandrocks

I have the same issue, only its an 11 minute video. Read about my issue and the things that Ive tried here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3269611

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Answer 4

Aug 17, 2011 4:10 PM in response to newenglandrocks

It turns out that imovie does not like to have too many video clips. When you have too many video clips, and you trim them significantly, there are rendering problems if the part of the clip you trimmed overlaps past (either before or after in time) the clips on either side of the problematic clip. If you end up trimming your clips that are imported into iMovie, then everything seems to work fairly well. This is pretty lake, because when I do a quick and dirty edit of a single 15 minute mountain biking segment down to two minutes, everything seems to work fine.

Albert

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Answer 5

Aug 18, 2011 12:37 PM in response to newenglandrocks

That kinda sounds like a bug then. I mean, I should be able to pick and choose clips from videos of any length without having to babysit right?

Maybe a fix is in the works.

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Answer 6

Aug 19, 2011 1:49 PM in response to newenglandrocks

If you have an iphone or ipod touch (a recent one), export the project to iTunes (NOT to the camera roll), move the project file to the mobile device (along with iMovie) and export it from there. Thats what I did. And it worked. Its stupid, but it worked :-)

iPhone 4 > iPad 2. wat

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