iMovie Keeps Saying: Sharing requires more memory to be available, Quit iMovie and relaunch it. I Just Bought My Mac And It Has Tremendous Amount Of Space Already, PLEASE PLEASE HELP

Have you tried deleting imovie preference files?

they are at home-library-preferences-com.apple.imoviepref

That sometimes works.

Hugh

How long is the movie?

How much RAM in your Mac?

How much free disk space?

What kind of camera?

What is the codec of the video clips? If you don't know, open one of the video clips in QuickTime Player and click Command-I to open the inspector. Tell us what you see there under Format:

Hi

Why do You not answer Appleman1958 questions. Very important info to get us to understand where the problem starts.

Yours eagerly waiting - Bengt W

How long is the movie?

Surely You know if it's a few minutes or a several hour epic ?

How much RAM in your Mac?

On Your Screen - Top left hand corner - there is an Apple symbol - unfolding the menu under this and selecting first item - About this Computer. You now got a window and can read Memory - XX GB DDR RAM

How much free disk space?

On Desktop - click on the icon top right hand corner - most often named Macintosh HD. Read at the bottom frame - a line says NN objects, XX,YY GB availably (or free space)

What kind of camera?

Where did You get material to Your Movie - eg SONY TRV-900E or downloaded from Internet as .wmv or What is it You've used to build Your project

What is the codec of the video clips?

• If you don't know, open one of the video clips in QuickTime Player and

• click Command-I to open the inspector.

• Tell us what you see there under Format:

I can not re-phrase this better than done.

Yours Bengt W

The movie is 6:05 in time, with about 3 mins worth of music along with the video, and some text.

That's not much to make any problem.

I downloaded mp4 videos from the Internet, the format of one of the clips, quick time displayed this in the inspector...

Apple Intermediate Codec 640X480, Millions

.mp4 is a container not to be mistaken for .mpeg4 which is a codec - and it’s most often could contain a H.264 encoded material (PS3 and AppleTV)

BUT

.aic = Apple Intermediate Codec 640X480, Millions - is a tru Codec that should work OK with iMovie

my mac says 4GB (1333 MHz DDR3) available when I open finder it displays that at the bottom,

Will be more than enough

and when i opened finder the bottom displayed 160.48 GB available.

That's much more than I set as a Minimum for SD-video - but for HD and movies up to 2 hours that would work OK. Remember that DVD - can only be SD-Video - it's a standard, and has nothing to with the tools used as iDVD, DVD-Studio Pro or Roxio Toast™

Apple Intermediate Codec 640X480

That is SD-Video

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Then I can not see any problem here - and when problems are hard to figure out there are a number of actions that usually takes care of some of them

• Trashing iMovie pref file - OR RATHER Start a new User-account and log into this and re-try to see if problem persists. (This creates a new set of error free preference files and indicates if problem is here or not)

• Repair Permissions - Run "Disk Util tool" and see if this helps

• Repair Hard disk - Same tool used BUT You need to start Your Mac from DVD or external hard disk - Can't do brain surgery on one self.

More Questions

• Audio used - what file format ? .mp3, .wma etc - I only use either .aiff 16-bit 48kHz (from miniDV tape Camera) or .aiff 44.1kHz from Audio-CD

Audio from iTunes I collect in a new PlayList - then burn it out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Not .mp3) and then I use the files on this CD in my movie projects - Works Always !

• Share to ? Where ? DVD or YouTube or MobileMe or ? ? ? - I only use Share to Media Browser and as Large - but that's because I go for DVDs and this gives best result to me.

Yours Bengt W

the audio I use is mp3

Convert it to - .aiff 16-bit 48kHz

I use Audacity (free on Internet) to do this - But as I get it - put it into iTunes and then collect into a new PlayList - then Burn out as an Audio-CD .aiff (not .mp3) also should work.

Yours Bengt W

I would create a new event, with new video. I would then export it to see if everything works ok in imovie.

If it does, then the problem is with that project itself.

I would redownload the video and try again, and if that doesn't work, I work transcode the video to AIC in the free MpegStreamclip.

Hugh

Think I've read that some were helped by

Closing down Mac totally even disconnecting Mains for about 20 minutes - then re-Start all

and for some it seemed to start working OK - Might work for You too

Else - try to isolate the problem - a corrupted video or audio clip might be the culprit.

Yours Bengt W