Why is exporting such a hassle?
I made a 7 minute movie in imovie and proceeded to export it. I recieved error messages three times in a row stating that I don't have enough "heap zone." Going onto the support forums, I found the heap zone error is sometimes caused by insificent ram, and I should clear my pram as well. Fair enough, I did so even though my 4 GB ram didn't even come close to maxing during the exporting process. I turn everything back on and the whole project outright dissapears. Now I was irked. I remade the whole thing and then tried exporting it in a "large" format only to get a completely different error that "user parameters are incorrect." Once again I searched and this time nobody had a definitive working answer. In my dispair I exported time and time again. After rebooting it worked, but the audio went out of sync about 3 minuts in. I checked online again (it's been 2 days of this back and forth now) and found that this was a common problem and I should detach the audio from my clips. I do so, but the unsync simply moves 1 minute forward. Now, 3 days after I first tried to export this darn thing I have detahced the audio of the whole video and made numerous makeshift fixes to try and get this darn thing to work. I am not a complete novice at video software troubleshooting, coming from years of moviemaker experience (which is also plagued with problems.) But I switched to imovie largely because I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this kind of crap ever again. The editing process was executed very well, I'm impressed. But the exporting is an absolute nightmare, and frankly almost makes me want to switch back to moviemaker. Does anybody have a clue as to what caused these numerous errors so I can diagnose them if they happen again?
iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Base model of 13" macbook air