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osstatus error -2125 when exporting in iMovie 11

In imove 11, I'm trying to export using Quicktime. The computer works on the export for hours, but always returns a message of "osstatus error -2125".

I've had no luck figuring out what the code means. Does anyone have any clues here?


Thanks,

Mitch

iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 11, 2011 7:25 AM

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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 7:31 AM

Hi


OK Error code - 2125 usually indicates that the movie is to large.


It use to pop up when going to iDVD !


iDVD - DO NOT CARE ABOUT Gbs at all. I got movies on 500Mb that do not fit and 50Gb that fits nicely.


iDVD - ONLY CARES ABOUT - Duration. Duration is Movie time + MENU TIME. Choice of

menu and animation of this can take lost of "DURATION" 15 minutes or even more.


Choice of encoding method and use of SL or DL DVDs determine the DVD limit.


iDVD 08 & 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities.

iDVD 6 has the two last ones

• Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST

• Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD

• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above


DL DVDs can store about double of these times.


ALTERNATIVE - The Error Code can indicate that free space on Start-up (BOOT) hard disk is

less than 25Gb (my minimum)


calbe - wrote

If you are getting OSStatus error -2125, I've seen this caused by the computer display sleep settings.

Try changing the sleep settings to never and see if you are able to export.


Yours Bengt W

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Nov 11, 2011 7:31 AM in response to diveh20

Hi


OK Error code - 2125 usually indicates that the movie is to large.


It use to pop up when going to iDVD !


iDVD - DO NOT CARE ABOUT Gbs at all. I got movies on 500Mb that do not fit and 50Gb that fits nicely.


iDVD - ONLY CARES ABOUT - Duration. Duration is Movie time + MENU TIME. Choice of

menu and animation of this can take lost of "DURATION" 15 minutes or even more.


Choice of encoding method and use of SL or DL DVDs determine the DVD limit.


iDVD 08 & 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities.

iDVD 6 has the two last ones

• Professional Quality (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST

• Best Performances (movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD

• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above


DL DVDs can store about double of these times.


ALTERNATIVE - The Error Code can indicate that free space on Start-up (BOOT) hard disk is

less than 25Gb (my minimum)


calbe - wrote

If you are getting OSStatus error -2125, I've seen this caused by the computer display sleep settings.

Try changing the sleep settings to never and see if you are able to export.


Yours Bengt W

Dec 1, 2011 4:04 PM in response to diveh20

Thank you diveh20. I shortened mine from 34 min to 29 min, but still got the same error. I then used "Export Movie" instead of "Export using Quicktime", got it successfully exported .mov format in 1080p, then used MPEG Stream Clip to convert that from .mov to .mp4. It is so frustrating that it does not work straight from iMovie. Thank you for your response though. I will probably try with shorter than 29min, not now, but later and see if it works.

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