How long of a movie can i make using imovie?

I am planning on making an hour, hour and a half movie next year for a film competition. Can i do that using a macbook and imovie? would i need to get an external harddrive or new software? any help will be appriciated

Hello, Zippy,
Almost all of my movies are just under 2 hrs....because I am using single layer DVDs as my final project. Those can hold just 2 hours total, including any menu items. Dual layer DVDs can hold up to 4 hours...I may consider doing these in the future...since I am making DVDs of our family photos and videos in chronologic order. Because they are clips of our family events, they are really DVDs of our photo albums with video footage of the same events inserted. So, they are not the same as a continuous two hour movie that would get boring or tiresome after some length. (These may be boring to others, but for us, they allow remembering our past family occasions and we like looking at them!)
The movie length you are considering is fine for iMovie. In fact, you can put more footage into iMovie if you are going to be making considerable edits. I had wedding video footage that ended up nearly four hours until I cut out a lot of the redundancies due to having video from two cameras.
You won't need any additional software unless you need more effects than those that come with iMovie. If you are thinking about that, check out GeeThree's 'Slick' volumes, found here
As said by the others, definitely an external drive is great for doing work with your movies. I do all my importing, editing and exporting on an external drive (500GB). I save my final DVD projects as disk images on the same drive. I export my movies back to DV tapes for storage. They take up too much space on my drive to store them there. If I need to make another DVD, I use the disk images, and if I ever need to have the movie in iMovie again, I can reimport it.

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