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Error: "Sharing requires more memory to be available. Quit iMovie and relaunch it"
- Relaunching does not work, I have 6gb of free RAM. this error happens with EVERY movie i attempt to export/share, making my imovie unusable.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have the same problem. Not sure if it is related to the latest update. iMovie version 9.0.4. Over 163GB free space on the Mac internal hard drive. 1.83 GB free memory according to Activity Monitor.
Mac Pro. Mac OS X 10.6.8. iMovie '11 9.0.4.
Message was edited by: Raymond Kam
Once I moved some of the older projects (Movies/iMovie Projects) to an external drive, I can export again.
It only worked once. Then, I got the same problem again.
Have you tried restarting your Mac?
Yes. The problem has persisted for slightly over a month.
Removing iMovie Projects did not work.
Hi
And exactly how much free space is there on Your hard disks ?
• Start-up Mac OS one ?
• Other external ones ?
How large is Your movie project.
• in time ?
• HD or SD-video eg 1920x1080 60p or 720x562 25fps
Yours Bengt W
Hi Bengt.
My free space is
My Projects are
I would contact Apple on this one. You can click the Contact Us link at the bottom right of this page, and look for your country. In the US I would look for Fast Lane Support.
This support is free if you have AppleCare on your Mac or if youu have purchased iMovie in the past three months.
I do not have AppleCare so the Fast Lane Support was not an option.
I ejected the internal hard drive that had the most iMovie Events and was able to finally export a video without the error.
This could happen if you had all (thousands) of clips in a single Event.
If so, use iMovie to divide them into multiple logical events.
I have 3 to 12 clips in each events and 200 events on each internal HD. the HD that I ejected, finally allowing me to export a project, had the most clips per Event, but at its most it was still under 60.
That amount should be fine. I have a good bit more than that.
At this point, I would guess that one or more of the events on the problem drive has a corrupted cache, thumbnails, or analyzation folder. Most likely cache.
I would remove the cache, thumbnails, and stabilization folders for one event at a time to the desktop until you isolate the problem event. iMovie will rebuild them. Take care not to delete your footage from the camera.
Hi,
I have the same problem. After of the last imovie updated . i can not shared the projects. any project and in all the formats. "sharing required more memory".
Hi AppleMan,
do you have some solution to this problem. ?? I think that is a problem of the last imovie updated.
Thanks
Same problem noted here after countless hours of patient frustration troubleshooting, deleting caches, chopping the haystack looking for a needle that doesn't even exist ... iMac 2.4Ghz / 4GB ... basically as always, after filming a race ... i started new project, updated to 10.6.8 and iMovie 9.04 due to that audio issue that's plauged me for quite (not saving changes) ... bam! ... now i can't render this project. Only thing new is i'm using 1080p video ... but i tried scaling all the video down to 720p with no luck either... i'm heading to AppleStore tomorrow ... hoping to render on a real Quad iMac with some beef to it ... this video is important to an entire State, not to mention my daughter Brittney =) GoSEAN.org
"Sharing requires more memory to be available" when I have plenty available already
