KennedyKallie
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Q: iMovie Won't Export My Video As A File?

I exported a video on iMovie last night and it worked fine.

I just cropped down a 17 minute video, it's around 7 minutes now. I click click share, file, resolution 1080p and quality high.
I then click next and save to documents. I do not have save to theatre check marked. Usually it takes a couple of minutes to save a video to my files but it now doesn't seem to be working at all.

On the top right of the screen where it shows the circle and progress of which your video is saving, the circle is staying empty.

When I click on it, it says...

Theatre - Name of my video

Name of my video - Theatre (Best Quality)

The time beside the circle says the export time can be anywhere over two hours, but will alternate meaning it can go down to a hour, then back up to 2 hours.

I believe iMovie is trying to save my video to theatre when I do not have that check marked, and am just wishing to save as a file?

I'm noticing there's no loading bar which there usually is. Is there anything I can do?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)

Posted on Aug 29, 2016 1:44 PM

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Q: iMovie Won't Export My Video As A File?

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  • by Jim Wanamaker,

    Jim Wanamaker Jim Wanamaker Aug 29, 2016 2:00 PM in response to KennedyKallie
    Level 4 (3,947 points)
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    Aug 29, 2016 2:00 PM in response to KennedyKallie

    First thing to try when iMovie is not behaving correctly is to delete preferences. Open iMovie holding down the command and option keys and select to delete preferences. Is this cut down movie the same one as previously shared ok?

  • by humphrey_g,

    humphrey_g humphrey_g Aug 30, 2016 1:50 PM in response to Jim Wanamaker
    Level 1 (8 points)
    iPhone
    Aug 30, 2016 1:50 PM in response to Jim Wanamaker

    Thank you Jim for this tip to delete the pref file.  I could NOT figure out why my Project was refusing to export.  So I followed your advice and 'bingo' it suddenly started behaving properly again.  I wonder why iMovie does this? And why Apple doesn't either fix it, or add it to their own Help file? (Think I probably know the answer to Q2!!)