Couldn't export a movie Imovie (error -34)

I could not export a movie. I movie was claiming "error -34" occured. What does that mean? and what do I need to do?
Thanks

Hi
Error -34 = dskFulErr Disk full
How much free space is there on Your Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk ?
No other is of interest as neither iMovie or iDVD or Mac OS can address any other for it's temp. files and that's why I never go under 25Gb free space - just to let them run OK.
Yours Bengt W

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Error -108
Error -108 memFullErr Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
Can mean many thing's - My first thought is
• Free Space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ? (other disks do not count)
Yours Bengt W

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Error -50 paramErr Error in user parameter list
Can there be any external hard disks - if so How is/are it/they formatted ? Must be Mac OS Extended (hfs) if used for Video.
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most but not for VIDEO.
What this means in Your situation is above me.
• free space on internal boot hard disk? How much ?
Video codec
• streamingDV, AIC etc. (not .avi, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv etc as they are containers not codecs)
Pictures
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Audio
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from Luke Burns
I fixed the problem.. but it was very, very strange. I had a very long section for credits and set the line spacing to 1.0.. for some reason this caused it. I removed it, and it worked fine. I put it back, and I couldn't preview or play the video.
I don't know why that could cause that big of a problem, but it did..
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jonorparkerjon
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Where do Your material come from
• Camera
• External hard disk
• USB-memory
And all are connected so that iMovie can find it ?
from: jonorparkerjon
After phone support from apple I ended up creating a new project and adding all 117 clips back in individually till I found out what clips flagged and would not allow me to export. I had 3 I deleted and replaced and everything works now 1hr after tedious work....
from Karsten S
Shorter clips than 1,5 sec might be one of the culptrits
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Set-Up might differ
• Mac OS - most probably X.7 or more
• iMovie version - more than iM'11 v. 9.0.4
Action taken
• Finalizing project - I never do as I never understood the gain to do so
• Share as HD to iDVD - never give any gain but if it works the resulting DVD is less quality than if SD-quality was shared
fps - set
•I only use PAL (25fps)
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Been working on a nice clip, wanted to export the movie and I get this error message that sais:
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