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I have a very large video that is taking hours to export, but need to work on a different project. Is the only way to wait until the current video export is done?
If I click the top pie-progress-indicator, I can see the 20-hour video exporting, but have no control to cancel it.
For anyone whose problem persisted after trying the above solutions, try opening up the activity monitor and using it to force quit the encoder task. I used this to permanently cancel several theater uploads that were stuck repeating in the queue.
For anyone whose problem persisted after trying the above solutions, try opening up the activity monitor and using it to force quit the encoder task. I used this to permanently cancel several theater uploads that were stuck repeating in the queue.
Still works for me in iMovie 10.1.4. I also tried sharing to file with 'Add to Theater' checked and this time it still showed a cancel cross which worked:
Geoff.
Quiting iMovie, then trying to export the new project results in the 20-hour video being exported (I assume it is still queued for export or something, and there is no way to clear that queue)
Yes there is. At the top right of the iMovie window is a white circular progress indicator. Click on it and a window opens Exporting .... with the estimated time to complete. To the right of this is a black dot with a cross in it. Click on this and the export is cancelled.
Geoff.
i can't find the black dot, what should i do?
I don't see the black dot either. I see the estimated time to complete, then nothing to the right.
iMovie keeps trying to export another project (not the one I'm working on) and I can't cancel the export (share), even when quitting and starting back up.
iMovie is great, but sometimes it's just nice to be able to save a project in a file somewhere, or save an export, etc. They're a little over-controlling that way 🙂
This is the black dot with a cross in it that I refer to. If it is missing I don't know what to suggest.
Geoff.
Same problem. There is no cancel (X) shown.
And with multiple share/exports queued up... there will be HOURS of waiting for this logjam to clear.
This is a tragic issue with iMovie. I hope it's being fixed soon.
I'm seeing the same thing as SydTraveller. I get the grey box to pop-up, but there is no cancel out X to kill the export job. I don't know what's going on with the last update, but upload jobs that were taking 8-12 minutes are now taking over 3 hours. Only way to kill the job is to shut down iMovie.
I am having the same problem and do not have the cross either. Has anyone figured out a solution?
I was having the same issue and managed to cancel them by going into 'Theater'. From here I could see the awaiting jobs and cancel them by clicking on the cross on the right hand side.
I was having this issue as well. Thank you for this!!! You solved it for me.
That's what I see. ðŸ˜
This answer should be marked as the sollution to the problem, as the cross no longer appears when you use the suggestion in the current answer marked as "solving the problem".
I've just done a test - the cross appears when you click the 'pie chart' progress indicator only when you are not sharing to theater.
When sharing to theater there is no cross here but you can cancel the export with the cross to the right of the linear progress indicator in the window which appears:
Geoff.
How do you cancel a current export job?
