imovie ios not exporting

Your post is a few years old but ill try anyway. Im having error exporting, the bar starts to move then stops right after. Ive tried putting a pic both beginning and end didt work. Still stuck. If any ideas let me know cheers

Same here. Have exported a handful of movies before..faced this issue for the first time a few days ago. What footage are you trying to edit and export? (E.g. Shot with camera app, other social media apps like Snapchat, Vine, Instagram?)

I did some troubleshooting..

I was putting together all saved videos from Snapchat.. no luck. Export screen comes up, but progress bar doesn't move.

Mixed some footage in there shot with actual iPhone camera app.. no luck.

Removed all Snapchat footage.. it worked straight away.

BUT ... it would make sense if I didn't just compile a bunch of Snapchat vids a few weeks ago and export them just fine?

So it's something to do with the actual footage I assume?

I might have found what is wrong.

I have been having the same issue with 3 different projects. Quite frustrating. Tried everything that was suggested on line (upgrade, free up memory, change something in the project....), including this morning at the Apple Store a complete ios re-install without recovery from back up/cloud.

Nothing helped to allow exporting even new projects.

Then I have found out a possible cause. Please check on your side if it is the same for you.

All 3 iMovies project of mine were starting with a video.

Remove the video and make sure you start with a picture: you can use a black screen with a 5 sec of silence as audio so everything else stays untouched.

Did work for me. All three projects are now exported videos.

Had to add a 1 second photo to get to export...... Thanks

The same solution worked for me. My video was only 30 seconds but the black screen did the trick, I just wanted it for Instagram so I can edit it off within that app, but this seems like a larger issue with the app.

Thanks.

Needed this tip. Thanks!

Thanks, you fixed my video!

Wow...I have used iMovie on my iPhone on a number of occasions and never had this issue until today...but I'm amazed that putting a picture at the start was all it took! ***Apple please fix***

This trick helped get me further along. Instead of locking up before starting to export, it started exporting (I could see the progress bar moving). However, I got an error message saying there was a problem during export. Anyone have any other ideas?

Edited: tried again and it worked the second time. What a hack job. But it does what I need for $4.99 so hard to complain too much.

I am having the same issue - adding a photo not working. have you had any luck since?

thanks,

joe