I have been using iMovie since I got my mac in Jan., but one specific movie crashes when I try to ex[ort to finder, iTunes, etc., even though the other movies work. I'm getting very annoyed. I reinstalled lion and deleted the com.Apple.iMovieApp.plist thing. Heeeelllp! 😕😟
MacBook Pro
CWIX, since the problem only affects that one movie, evidently the problem is with some element in that movie, and it's not obvious to you exactly what it could be.
Try this: in the Finder, locate your movie project and duplicate it. Open the duplicate and delete half of it. See if you can export that half.
If that export works OK, make another duplicate and delete the other half.
Following this logic, you will eventually find the troublesome clip, transition, title, or audio that is causing the overall project to crash when you export it.
Lacking any other obvious problem, perhaps such a strategy is worth considering.
i have already done this, and when i deleted the first half, it worked, but, when i deleted the second half, it also worked. why?
Not a clue, CWIX.
Now try joining the two halves. It will probably work. I wonder what King Solomon would have thought about that.
okay, i just tried to export to whole movie again, and it got about halfway, but instead of crashing, it said not enough room in heap zone or something like that. what does this mean?
iMovie quit unexpectedly
| Process: | iMovie [568] |
| Path: | /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie |
| Identifier: | com.apple.iMovieApp |
| Version: | 9.0.4 (1634) |
| Build Info: | iMovieApp-16340000~2 |
| Code Type: | X86 (Native) |
Parent Process: launchd [89]
| Date/Time: | 2012-03-09 18:19:22.810 +0300 |
| OS Version: | Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) |
Report Version: 6
| Interval Since Last Report: | 11779 sec |
| Crashes Since Last Report: | 4 |
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 33 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 3
| Anonymous UUID: | B4AEDA44-86B8-41FB-B184-C67F42490B58 |
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000096
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Application Specific Information:
building project tree
VRAM info:disp 0:256MB
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
| 0 com.apple.QuickTime | 0x96b4c91e SetTimeBaseRate_priv + 12 |
| 1 com.apple.QuickTime | 0x96b3edcd QTGetWallClockTimeBase_priv + 109 |
| 2 com.apple.QuickTime | 0x96b3ecf9 AssureThreadTopLevelIdleManagerExists + 45 |
| 3 com.apple.QuickTime | 0x96b3ec21 QTGetTimeUntilNextTask_priv + 60 |
| 4 com.apple.QuickTime | 0x96b3ebd9 QTGetTimeUntilNextTask + 29 |
| 5 com.apple.QTKit | 0x93fff681 +[QTMovie_QuickTime idleAllMovies:] + 457 |
| 6 com.apple.Foundation | 0x92257484 __NSFireTimer + 141 |
| 7 com.apple.CoreFoundation | 0x95599a3b __CFRunLoopRun + 8059 |
| 8 com.apple.CoreFoundation | 0x955973c4 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452 |
| 9 com.apple.CoreFoundation | 0x955971f1 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97 |
| 10 com.apple.HIToolbox | 0x970c8e04 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 392 |
| 11 com.apple.HIToolbox | 0x970c8bb9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 354 |
| 12 com.apple.HIToolbox | 0x970c8a3e BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81 |
| 13 com.apple.AppKit | 0x91783595 _DPSNextEvent + 847 |
| 14 com.apple.AppKit | 0x91782dd6 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 156 |
| 15 com.apple.iMovieApp | 0x00044e47 0x1000 + 278087 |
| 16 com.apple.AppKit | 0x917451f3 -[NSApplication run] + 821 |
| 17 com.apple.AppKit | 0x9173d289 NSApplicationMain + 574 |
| 18 com.apple.iMovieApp | 0x000031b3 0x1000 + 8627 |
| 19 com.apple.iMovieApp | 0x00002a6e 0x1000 + 6766 |
what i do ?
okay, I tried again, and the second half worked, the first didn't. So, i kept deleting from the first half, one by one, and i deleted a certain clip and it worked. When I deleted this clip on the full movie, it still crashed. What the heck?!
Thanks for the update.
There seem to be a lot of complaints about this, clearly it's a bug and for now we might just have to wait until Apple fixes things. You've done more than can be reasonably expected of anyone to work around it.
Until then, I can suggest the following - most of these suggestions sound like voodoo and they probably are, but at this point we have no other information with which to propose an effective solution:
Of the many complaints I've read, those seem to be the most logical.
I have this same problem and need help. The only time I can export is if I have no text, backgrounds or separated audio inside my video.
I would really like help if possible!
I have trashed plists, I have exported in every possible setting and option, I have renamed, removed and copied back. I have verified my disk and have attempted to export to every possible folder that makes sense on my macbookpro.
I'm grateful for any help anyone can lend... I'm lost!
iMovie quit unexpectedly
