IMovie won't Share to Quicktime

Went through Expert Settings, tried a few different ways, including Save to CD.
One error message says something about an Error 54,that it perhaps will not save to the drive because there isn't enough room (it would make only a 29 meg file as one option.)
Mostly it says that something within my iMovie project is not compatable with Quicktime. I have footage brought in from a single camera (MiniDV), no mixing of media along that line. The only audio I have is from within iMovie (ie, garage band sounds and themes). There are a LOT of sound effects and music themes in the movie...halloween stuff.
How do I even troubleshoot this problem?
I kept trying to export as something else, and it currently seems to be trying to compress as a flash file. Imagine that will be HUGE, and will probably toss it if it is useless for processing as something that will lead to a YouTube video.
It seems it first wanted to process my 4 min. video in two hours, now it's 1/8 done, but it wants 200 minutes more.
I really don't want to stop this now, but this "whatever problem" has happened a few times now on different projects. If I can't process through to the end, what the heck use is iMovie? Also tried FotoMagico demo recently, and when I went to save to a QT movie, FM crashed. Macs! So stable. ha ha.

Thanks for responding, here at 2 am on West Coast.
Storage space: I have 158 GB on this particular drive, which is not the OS drive. Have a gig of ram.
This would be my fourth project on iMovie, and about my 20th movie (others being on PC with MM2). Three imovie ones are posted at www.youtube.com/CarolJWright. "The Piano" one, which originated from 4mg stills using Photo To Movie, with the huge .dv file from that brought into iMovie just to add a sfx and to save down to a .mov file. (I could not get a QT file from P to M either.) The piano has Incredible quality video and audio on YouTube. The other two, "life's a Beach" and "Nothing but Blue" were shot with a digital still camera on video mode (with some larger stills.) Third Party Plugins? Don't think so. Think P to M is its own program.
I do not know what a Permissions Repair is, though will look when this file finishes processing.
Meanwhile, here I am on my PC at the same time the Mac is churning away. Since the flash export would take forever, I just cancelled it. I also Saved the iMovie project again, and then closed iMovie program, and reopened it. It seemed to tidy up the program's workspace, as there was a partial wider image outside the screen preview area. Could be that was the problem, with QT trying to make that part of the movie area. ?? The film is called Ghost Walker and features my mother's walker all decked out in ghosts. I made a suspsense movie out of our day. cute.
Anyway...I went back in and backed off some of the settings, and it is now churing away as a .mov file, I hope. (Of course, I'd change a few things, right, so I have no idea what might have worked to move things along, if it is indeed working.)
When it started, it said it would take four minutes. Now after 10 minutes, it says it will take 70 minutes, third of the way through or so. What's up with this time going UP as the process continues?
Will look at that Permissions Repair thing, but have no idea what it is. Will look at Pogue's book "Switching to the Mac."
Will let the file process, and come back in 20 minute to see if there are other suggestions...or if my movie turned into something.
When I get almost done creating a movie, I turn into a bulldog and want to finish it. Grrrr!
I have a gig of memory
CW

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Hello,
I'm now finished with editing my movie. When i try to share the movie as a file or to youtube it gives me this message:
"This object can not be shared as long as
it still has references to the media on camera."
What does it mean, how can i fix this? Yes i did import the files from my camcorder to iMovie. (I'm using a Canon XA10)
Thanks

I don't see anything obvious that is wrong.
I would try the following.
Use SHARE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME
Choose MOVIE TO QUICKTIME MOVIE
Click Options.
For Video Compression, choose Apple Intermediate Codec.
For size, choose current size or 720x480.
Then save it where you can find it.
If that works, you can take the file in Apple Intermediate Codec and convert it to h264 in an app like MPEG Streamclip or QuickTime Player.

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Ok. I've done as much research as I can. I have a mate that works with Macs and even he's stumped.
imovie 11. I have just finished a simple 15 minute movie with photos and clips from Nikon camera and iPhone. It plays on iMovie no problem. As soon as I go to "share" with iTunes or Theatre, it comes up with "There was a problem sharing this file". Then a Video -50 error.
I have heaps of RAM and 25G free on hard drive. My movie files are all M4V and MOV files. Music is from iTunes. I've done a tonne of movies on the old iMovie and never had a drama. Got the update and have just had my first drama with my first movie.
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