Export problem: incomplete video

Hi everyone,
I'm using iMovie 5.0.2 on Tiger (QuickTime 7.3.1). A problem I've experienced with some of my iMovie projects is currently bugging me again:
I'm working in iSight mode to edit videos taken with a digital (still) camera in video mode. When exporting the final video, e.g. in iPhone format, everything seems to go fine, there is no error message. But when I open the resulting m4v file (or mp4 file) with QuickTime it only plays up to a certain point. After this point, I can hear and navigate within the audio soundtrack, but the video doesn't move anymore, ie just displays a still frame.
I've had the same problem with a few other QuickTime settings, such as the high quality setting. Interestingly, if I choose CD-ROM in the QuickTime export settings, the resulting file works perfectly.
Has anyone experienced the same behaviour? Any ideas?
cheers
Hendrik

Now, I've managed to free 6 GB on my hard drive and still the video was truncated at exactly the same point.
However, I've discovered something else. I don't know whether this is a solution or a workaround. When I made a slight change to the clip in which the video stopped (e.g. remove one frame at the start), the resulting exported video would continue until a later position. Repeating this procedure finally got me all the way until the end of the film.
I don't quite know what to make of this – I think the issue might not be related to lack of HD space after all. Maybe it's just another iMovie bug?
Boy, I think it's time for me to upgrade to a recent Mac with a) a larger hard drive, b) iLife '08 and all the other goodies in Leopard. Maybe the iMovie problem will be resolved in iLife '08. And if not, at least with a faster Mac I don't have to wait as long for the result.
cheers
Hendrik

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