Help with iMovie- Error message 10008

"It was the only 'mov' file amongst 'gopro' and 'img' files"

Have you been able to export GoPro files using iMovie? I kept getting the error 10008 and only now discovered that GoPro files aren't compatible with iMovie - I've spent so long editing footage all taken on my GoPro and the files need to be changed in CineForm studio software - except I just read that GoPro isn't linked with CineForm anymore. Do you know if I need to find all the original clips and convert them for iMovie and start everything again, or is there a way I can keep everything I've worked on and convert it all together?

There was quite a bit of GoPro footage amongst other HD vidcam footage. Everything exported as usual after I found the offending clip. It was my mate that uploaded them (his first time using iMovie so he would have just plugged and imported) so I was out of that part, it was strange about the .mov clip and that every other clip was .img when I was scrubbing over them in events although they were a mixture of imports and showed up as .m4v in the files on my mac. The GoPro should be fine. There were numerous gopros here as they were from my students, also an older HD standard headcam, iphones and Sony HD video cams. For only one clip to be different/dodgy/corrupt was odd. I am going to purchase a gopro myself in a few days so if I do come into difficulty with it I will add to the post.

I am trying to get to grips with Final Cut Pro X too but have read similar problems.

I'm sure you've resolved this problem by now, but just for future people who see this problem... I'm running iMovie off of an external drive with a library on that drive as well. I had a 2 minute movie and got this error about an eighth of the way through exporting.

I saw someone talking about separating out the chapters, trimming out black frames, and thought, "oh my God I'm absolutely not doing that" and copied and pasted everything into a new project using the same library and it exported just fine.

#imovie, amirite?

Hello,

I have worked on this iMovie project well over 12+ hours and have a deadline to meet.

I am hoping you can assist me. I've researched the error code 1008 and know that it means one or more video files are corrupted. Three folded question here...

1.) Please advise a better way to locate the corrupted segment or corrupted file that is blocking the completion of the rendering process.

2.) I removed three separate video clips from this movie yet when to attempt to "Share" as a "file" to my desktop it continues to attempt to render video clips I removed. I've changed the file name when saving of the video yet it continues to not be able to share. Any suggestions?

3.) Is there a way to "clean out" the "share" option of files? When I click on the circular radio dial next to the share icon in the top right corner- it continuously tries to upload old files...

Any suggestions would be great! Thank you!

I tried to download a video from imovie I've made when it comes up with this. (Error in video rendering: 10008 (iMovie error 10008: renderVideoFrame failed)) why does imovie say that. I have ensured that all the video clips I've included in the video on Imovie are also on my mac, it's worse because of the music I'm using or what can it be

Hello, we ran into this same issue.

Removing the black frames helped indeed, but sometimes we had problems finding all the black frames, so exporting was still a problem.

So we found another solution that seems to work for us.

The sourcefragments we use are .avi : we converted them first to .mov using an app called Wontube Free Video Converter. It's on the appstore. I'm sure other similar apps will do the trick too.

After using the .mov-fragments in iMovie we didn't have errorcode 10008 anymore while exporting and didn't have to remove any black frame anymore. We're not wizzards here, but presume that converting your sourcefiles first, cleans them up.

Hope this helps, 'cause the internet is full of similar threads.

I'VE had the same problem, but I solved it now..

all you got to do is to convert the quality of all the videos to the same format.. that's all, then I am sure that it will work.

i have got the same problem. pls help. thanks.

I am facing this problem too. Sometimes it downloads part of the video instead of the entire video.

Thanks for your suggestions. I tried, but that doesn't work. It seems like iMovie is not compatible with the movie clips generated by my cam. 😟

same problem!!!please help 😟

I was able to close iMovie, turn off WiFi, restart iMovie, and it worked!

Thank you this helped me. iMovie created a partial file, i went to the end of this file to see the time stamp then went to the same clip in iMovie and trimmed the clip. That did the trick.

I'm glad you worked it out. iMovie sure does seem temperamental these days.

Hi, I am having the same problem as you were. How were you able to tell which video clips were currupted? Thanks in advance.