Exporting 2 hour progect from iMovie takes 8 hours?

Please help... Why it takes so long ? I'm exporting 2hour Movie project and it takes me 8hours to export.

I'm afraid that unless you've got a maxed out Mac Pro, with RAID disks and 8+ CPU cores, then that kind of time does sound about right.
It's because each and every video frame has to be processed by the system CPU. That is, read in, translated, reformatted including computational compression in most cases, and then written out again to disk. That's a lot more work that just spitting the unchanged frames out to the video card's decoder for normal playing.
If the common technology doesn't go much beyond HD (already HUGE amounts of data), then hopefully in about five years or so, the common computers of the time will be able to process in real time (one-to-one), or even faster if we're really lucky. I can't wait!

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Ach... I found a solution thanks to previous posts which came to light after I'd posted what was obviously a question that had been asked before.

Exporting my HD video from iMovie to be used in Handbrake

What is the best export method (file type and settings) for exporting HD video to be converted using Handbrake? I use handbrake to convert my HD video to be played on my iPad. And I want to edit the video first in iMovie, then export the movie to handbrake to be converted to play on my iPad.
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I still don't see how Handbrake is necessary.
For example, you can, in imovie, SHARE/EXPORT USING QUICKTIME. Choose h.264 as codec, 1280x720 as dimensions, and then set data rate at a good level.
I would recommend that you make a 1 minute movie so you can test various settings and see which works for you. Try a data rate of say 12Mbps and then try lower data rates until you see a drop off in quality. You may be able to go as low as 5mbps or lower. The only advantage of a low data rate is a lower file size, but iPads have limited storage so no need to use more bandwidth than necessary.

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Hi!
Desperately need your help. I have a problem with moving my files from iMovie to FCE to edit. Pre cut in iMovie from both DV and HD files (canon 5D) and moving the project to FCE through XML. When in FCE the files line up with different sizes, the old DV files small, 1/3 of the canvas, the HD files perfect.
Are there any settings which can be changed to fix this?
Another problem I have is when exporting to QT the quality simply is not the same as when I export from iMovie and play on 50" plasma. Why? I have tried all options available.
Hope someone out there has some experience and advise.
Kind regards
Olafur

When in FCE the files line up with different sizes, the old DV files small, 1/3 of the canvas, the HD files perfect.
I assume your Sequence settings are for HD which would be why the SD files are so small in comparison.
-DH

Best settings for exporting crisp video/graphic from iMovie to YouTube?

Hi, I am working on a video for a client and after viewing on YouTube they had some issues with the type not looking "crisp," and I'm not sure how to fix it, not sure if it's a YouTube thing or something I am doing wrong.
I am working in iMovie 6/HD on OS 10.4.11. I do my "type slides" in Photoshop and import them into the iMovie as photos (JPGs). I know some text/titles can be done in iMovie but there is very little control I have over what goes where, so by making my type slides in Photoshop I have more creative control to do what I want. I have done tests and it doesn't seem to matter what resolution the Photoshop files are when they're imported, the results are always the same.
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Hello Brian,
Have you tried de-interlacing before exporting?
Sometimes, when I'm in a rush, I would expand the Canvas/Viewer (viewed at 100%), pick the clearest frame, and do a screen capture.
For example, with the captured image (in Photoshop), I have a marquee preset at 640x480 (NTSC). I created an action to crop, resize to 720x480, then set the Pixel Aspect Ratio to NTSC.
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Unfortunately imovie has issues with animation (shouldn't have but does). Try converting your animations to another editable format (DV, AIC, MJPEG) before importing them into imovie.

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How do you export a still photo with the cartoon effect applied from imovie?
Thanks.

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Hopefully someone might have an answer for me. I am trying to export a finished project to You Tube. However, when trying to choose the file, it does not show up in the finished project list. I have gone back to iMovie to see if I've made a mistake with finalizing it. It seems to be finalized, but I cannot share it to anything (You Tube, Facebook, iTunes). I click on share and it does not respond. I click on File, scroll down to share, it does nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? How did you reslove it?

I experienced the same problem as mreingrover. The Share features of iMovie appear to be completely unimplemented.
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Being from Germany and thus often confronted with the PAL/NTSC issue:
Over the last at least 10 years the majority of locally sold DVD-Players and TV-Systems are multisystem. So the risk of someone not being able to play back an NTSC-DVD is there, but chances are a lot higher that it works.
To my knowledge, the majority of DVD-Players sold here even allow for playback of an NTSC-DVD to a PAL-only TV-set.
I personally think it is fairly safe at this time, only to worry about the system issue (not saying it is not there at all) once you get feedback, that someone is in fact not able to playback NTSC-material.
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I've created a project on imovie and it's finished now. I've tried to share/export it and it wont work. I've emptied my trash, closed time machine and dropbox and deleted files but nothing seems to work.

Hi
Error -108 memFullErr Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
(the Application down in the Dock - not the Device)
But this 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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I am trying to export my HD movie from imovie in HD size format 1280x720, when I do I am not getting any audio. Is there something that I am missing, a mute check box or special setting? I have looked everywhere but just cant figure it out.

This is speculation on my part so take it with a grain of salt.
But first you have to realize that iMovie renders the entire movie, effects, music, transitions, photos, etc. in one pass. If you use Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro, you can render a sequence, or render a nest of sequences. You can create a much longer movie this way without taxing your machine.
Secondly, the Intel architecture has a graphics processor that offloads a lot of the heavy lifting to a video chip or video card. On a PowerPC (RISC) architecture, everything goes through the CPU.

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Try using share>Export using Quicktime
Click Options and choose the codec/resolution etc
AC

Exporting Still Frames from iMovie

I have managed to extract still frames from videos and put them back into iMovie. I would now like to export some still frames from iMovie and put them into a Word document. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Any ideas?

set playhead at wanted position of clip ..
ctr-click, choose 'add still frame to Project'
in Project window, click on new clip, ctrl-click, choose 'reveal in Finder'
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Poor quality exporting from iMovie to iDVD

When I export a dv movie from iMovie to iDVD, the quality drops significantly. A nice clean movie imported from a dv camcorder to iMovie becomes horrible pixelated mess once exported into iDVD and actually burned into a DVD. No matter what quality settings one uses.
It seems like many people experience similar problems, judging by postings (unanswered, as far as I can tell). It also appears that basically everyone using iMovie has this problem, but most people are content with poor quality DVDs, or are they?
Does anyone know why this is so, and if there is any workaround? You know, the simplest way out is to switch to a PC and use one of their standard movie editing software, but isn't Mac supposed to be better for this purpose?

Hi
A.
If You included photos into Your movie and used Share/Export to iDVD. iMovie
asks to render the material = Destructive in two ways:
• Losy iDVD project
• Original iMovie IS HARMED: Photos needs to be re-imported and re-edited.
• Re do the import and editing.
• Close iMovier
• Open iDVD
• Drop iMovie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD
Done.
B.
There are a major difference between a Mac Monitor and a Standard TV (much less
sharpness due to 525 - 625 lines (NTSC or PAL))
I connect my Camera to my Mac (via FW) and analog out to a TV so that I can monitor
the process during iMovie editings. (iMovie preferences set Playback via Camera)
Yours Bengt W
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