iMovie error -108

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iMovie error -108

Hi everyone...

I've been trying to export a project that I made with iMovie 11 and all I get is a message with this error -108 all the time.

I have a new Macbook Pro

Nome do Modelo: MacBook Pro

Identificador do Modelo: MacBookPro8,1

Nome do Processador: Intel Core i5

Velocidade do Processador: 2,4 GHz

Número de Processadores: 1

Número Total de Núcleos: 2

Cache L2 (por Núcleo): 256 KB

Cache de L3: 3 MB

Memória: 4 GB

Versão da ROM de Inicialização: MBP81.0047.B22

Versão do SMC (sistema): 1.68f98

Número de Série (sistema): C2XGL2N0DV13

UUID do Hardware: 68EEE029-912F-5BDA-B6FE-CE1D2EB7D68D

Sensor de Movimento Brusco:

Estado: Ativado

I have more then 400gb of free space in my HD.

The clips that I used to make my project have 960p.

The project had about 15min with some transitions, titles and a back ground music.

After reading many topics here and other forums I decided to split my project in two, with 7 and 8 min each, but still no success. I could only export in low quality, but no change with 720p or 1080p. Always getting the same message after around 50% of the process done. I can't even finalize the project.

Please can anyone give me some help or any ideas so I can try to export my project.

Thanks.

iMovie '11, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 16, 2012 4:10 PM

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Bengt Wärleby

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Jan 17, 2012 2:41 AM in response to VinnyDutra

Hi

Turn off TimeMachine during Share/Export.

Yours Bengt W

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Jemasoft

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Jan 17, 2012 3:04 AM in response to VinnyDutra

According to my experience the source of problem are transitions with texts. Try to re-enter texts or to chanche or put once again these transitions. It should help. Do not use export with Quicktime. Normal export works better. Dividing your project will not help.

Good luck.

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VinnyDutra Author

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Jan 17, 2012 9:40 AM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Hi Bengt,

thanks for your quick reply...

but sadly it wasn't helpful since I've never activated TimeMachine in my Mac...

I finally had success exporting my movie, but had to divide it in 4 parts, with 3 or 4 min each. This solves my problems for now, but it's not entirely my desire to have that many separated parts for my trips movies.

Thanks again for your attention.

Vinny Dutra

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VinnyDutra Author

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Jan 17, 2012 9:44 AM in response to Jemasoft

Hi Jemasoft,

thanks for your quick reply...

I finally had success exporting my movie, but had to divide it in 4 parts, with 3 or 4 min each. This solves my problems for now, but it's not entirely my desire to have that many separated parts for my trips movies.

Next time I'll try your suggestion by using other type of transitions and add again my texts, titles.

Thanks again for your attention.

Vinny Dutra

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VinnyDutra Author

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Jan 17, 2012 6:47 PM in response to VinnyDutra

It finaly did it!

I removed all the texts (titles) in my movie and it exported in 720p.

I haven't tried yet in 1080p but as soon as I do it I'll post the results I had.

Thanks

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VinnyDutra Author

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Jan 18, 2012 2:01 PM in response to VinnyDutra

VinnyDutra wrote:

It finaly did it!

I removed all the texts (titles) in my movie and it exported in 720p.

I haven't tried yet in 1080p but as soon as I do it I'll post the results I had.

Thanks

After dividing my original movie of 15min in 4 parts of 3 and 4min each, I could export each part in 720p.

I found out that the problem in my original project was the texts that I added, so I imported to my events the four clips and made a second project. Since this time the texts were inbeded in these clips, this new project went through no error -108 during the new export. Success!

This means I have to export the same movie twice, so it takes twice as much time, but at least I have my movie.

Again shame on you Apple with this really crappy iMovie software, so far!

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Uowmag

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Aug 28, 2012 4:37 AM in response to VinnyDutra

This may be of help to some, but not all.

I also had recurring 108 problems, when trying to share a 28 min video to iTunes at "Large" size. This was a collection of holiday snaps and clips to share via DVD with family.

I closed all applications, checked my memory was as free as possible - every time the 108 error appeared after 50 mins of processing, within the final minute before completion. Watching activity monitor showed that I ran out of free memory, as hundreds of Mb were being used in the last minute.

Today I got it to work! :-)

I did two things differently.

ONE

I checked on the forums and found the command "sudo purge" to empty out inactive memory. I ran this before opening iMovie, AND after iMovie finished opening, as more inactive memory was shown after the application initialised. Use TERMINAL and type in "sudo purge"

TWO

I optimised every clip included in the project before the share command. This took a lot of time to do, and I imagine this was the real reason the export worked, more so than the purge above. Right-click each of the video clips in the project and click Optimise if it is in the list. I recognise that this drops the quality of the clips, but my intended destination was DVD so using "Optimise - Large" I still have better-than-DVD footage for my DVD.

The export process took about the same amount of time to complete, but I had 1/2 Gb of free memory at the end.

Hope this helps someone.

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