Having a problem with exporting in iMovie

Hi,
I shot some live music video on a Sony handycam. The plan was to import it into iMovie, adjust the audio EQ, adjust the brightness, contrast etc., trim a few second of banter off the beginning and end, and uploed it to youtube. Everything is great until the export part. Apparently, the clips are too big for youtube, and if I try to export a five minute clip using quicktime, a message tells me that it is going to take four hours? What am I doing wrong? Are the sony files not compatible with youtube? I uploded from the camera to iMovie in the smaller size.

Treaks wrote:
However, to access those things and clip trimmer, the clip has to be dragged into Project.
That's the basic iMovie workflow. First you import your clips to iMovie where they'll show up in the Events Library. Then you create a Project and move the specific clips you want to it from the Event Library. Your Event Library is available to all your Projects which means a single clip can be used in many different Projects.
To do any converting, finalizing, or exporting, the message is telling me hours and hours.
Depending on the length of your project and how you're outputting it (Sharing) it can take some time. In the test example I created for YouTube, it took about 25 minutes to complete. The majority of that time is for uploading to YouTube. That process is dependent on your internet connection and upload speed and will vary accordingly.
If I click on the camera icon on the desktop, there was a folder with MTS files in it. I copied this files to my desktop. .
Even without iMovie, it's possible to do a lot with your video using just your Mac. As you've found out, by connecting your camera you have access to your video clips and can do things like play them using the QuickTime player.
There is also a folder in the camera called AVSHD. this contains QuickTime files. I can click on those files, and they open, and play with QuickTime player. I cannot edit those, except for Trim, and I'm not sure that they are small enough for export.
Have a look at this thread where our residnet guru, AppleMan1958 talks about importing AVCHD.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4755425?start=0&tstart=0
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