error in user parameter list

I get the error message:

The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Error in user parameter list)

I've tried exporting and sharing in everyway possible. No special characters in the title. Have exported much larger movies... Have over 250 GB of disk space. Have restarted a couple times. Only running iMovie, no other applications running when trying to export.

iMac 2.4 ghz core duo running OSX 10.6.8.

iMovie 9.0.4 (1634).

No stills, just video.

Some video imported using fliped4mac becuase it was in the windows player format.

Tried all of the fixes in this forum. Also tried removing unused clips to trash.

I have a company wanting to pay me for this corporate video I made for them... but if I can't burn it do dvd, I won't be getting paid and not looking forward to telling them they've been wasting their time working with me.

I don't know for sure if this will help any one else or not but I wanted to post what I had done because I had a great amount of frustration with this issue and there did not seem to be any answers out there except extremely complication suggestions. It seems I had not optimized the videos that I had imported. I highlighted each event and then clicked optimize- full size. Now I can share my videos to idvd without getting that error message. Maybe that will help someone else if they have not already tried optimizing.

This did not work for us (deleting clips one at a time) BUT that was the problem - a BAD CLIP.

BTW - we also have a problem with the preview window not working. It was as if the window was missing - you could not see the video playing either in full screen mode or in the small preview window inside iMovie.

We copied the complete project file from the old project to the new one. We deleted each clip from the end of the video to the beginning - no dice.

We then did it again deleting the very first clip - no dice.

We deleted the com.apple.imove preference files - no dice.

Then we decided to shut down the laptop (not restart - sometimes it makes a difference). We then restarted and opened iMovie.

The copied project was there BUT the very first clip was missing. (BTW - the preview window was now working). We redid the opening clip and now the movie saved.

I'm not sure what happened but I suspect it had something to do with bringing the laptop out of sleep mode. Many of my teachers just close the lid rather than shutting down.

When we were getting ready to shut down her machine a warning popped up about someone being connected to her laptop. That was, probably, me, yesterday, when I connected to her laptop to copy a file to my computer to upload to Vimeo. The connection had been broken on my end but, evidently, not on hers. So that might have had something to do with the corruption in iMovie.

So...long story short...the reboot seemed to fix everything.

Hope that helps.

This worked for me, thank you!! I duplicated my project (for good measure) then narrowed down the clips bit by bit until I found the problme clip. In my case I used the same clip 3 times in a row on a faster speed. Guess iMovie just couldn't handle it. So I created 3 versions of the original clip so I didn't have to use the same one. Worked! Six months of my life saved!

Thank you so much for the fix. I've never been more mad at a computer. I entered into a movie competition and all my work was on my mac (which won't run facetime or any microsoft products). But when I started my movie imovie would work. Of course it failed when I needed it. Your solution saved the day! One of clips that used the reverse effect was causing the problem. Actually a really easy fix.

this happens everytime i try to finalize my project. is never happened before and nobody's solutions help:( i dont know what to do because it's never happened before and i have multiple other videos that i have uploaded to youtube and i wont work anymore

i have iMovie 11 by the way...

Hi

Versions of iMovie and FiinalCut needed.

iMovie 1 to 11 - only as a QuickTime movie or XLR-files (X??) - but not in an editable version to FinalCut Express up to version 4 or FinalCut Pro up to version 7.

FinalCut Pro X - and iMovie'11 or 13 MIGHT HAVE Sloved this - BUT Ihave neither to test.

Yours Bengt W

The bane of a middle-school film teacher's existence.

Any resolution to this problem, yet?

Do you know how to resolve this?

Have you figured out how to solve the error message?

DryFlyRy- Your suggestion worked! thx

DryFlyRy--Thank you!!!! It WORKED!!! In my case I had apparently made too many copies of one slide after another and thats why mine was throwing the code! thank you for your advice! 2 THUMBS UP!

I just faced the same error message and your method worked out great! Thank you.

i was getting very frustrated with the export error -49 and repeated attempts to do so , I just did a system clean with my clean my mac (by macpaw) and it worked fine first time . Good luck