I cannot export my movies from iMovie since updating to Mavericks.

I cannot export my movies from iMovie since updating to Mavericks. I can get it into Theater then it says "Creating movie" but nothing happens. I can select share movie into a file, I can pick a name, resolution and location, but it doesn't save. I get the blue circle in the top right hand corner but nothing seems to happen. iMovie used to work perfectly, I cannot believe the update has ruined it!!!!

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Every time I try to export my movie from iMovie, I keep getting a message that states, "Unable to prepare project for publication. The project could not be prepared for publication because an error occurred. (-50). HELP

Every time I try to export my movie from iMovie, I keep getting a message that states, "Unable to prepare project for publication. The project could not be prepared for publication because an error occurred. (-50). HELP

Hi
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
• in what format ? .jpg, .bmp, .tif, else ?
Audio
• from where/what format ? iTunes, .avi, .mp3, .aiff, else ?
Trash the Preference file:
The "com.apple.iMovie.plist" file
Many users has not observed that there are TWO libraries.
• Library - at root level
• Library - in user/account folder - THIS IS THE ONE to look into
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..
Klaus1
You need more free space on your hard drive.
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....
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
Bengt cont.
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)
Yours Bengt W

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3 attempts to export a movie from iMovie - pulling my hair out

I have a large project in Imovie 11, mixture of video clips and photographs. I have tried 3 times to export to HD. This takes 11 hours to run each time so you can imagine how frustrated I am!!!! I am using the menu option SHARE, EXPORT MOVIE, and choosing HD. Like I said it takes 11 hours then I get error -49 cannot prepare movie, I have had this 3 times now so frustrated, please can anyone help me, what am I doing wrong?
I read somewhere on this forum about running analyze video, but when I choose this the options are greyed out so I cannot choose any. Help before I jump out the window, thank you.
Running on a MacBook Pro, Mountain Lion and 175GB free space on disk.

geoffreyfrombasingstoke wrote:
I have a large project in Imovie 11, mixture of video clips and photographs. I have tried 3 times to export to HD. This takes 11 hours to run each time so you can imagine how frustrated I am!!!! I am using the menu option SHARE, EXPORT MOVIE, and choosing HD. Like I said it takes 11 hours then I get error -49 cannot prepare movie, I have had this 3 times now so frustrated, please can anyone help me, what am I doing wrong?
I read somewhere on this forum about running analyze video, but when I choose this the options are greyed out so I cannot choose any. Help before I jump out the window, thank you.
Running on a MacBook Pro, Mountain Lion and 175GB free space on disk.
Hi Geoffrey,
Right-click (or Control-click) on one of the video clips in the project timeline. From the pop-up menu select Reveal in Finder. Now open the clip with QuickTime and select from the menu "Window > Show Movie Inspector". In the Inspector, tell us what is shown for Format and FPS (frames per second).
It's possible that you are using an unusual video format (codec) that iMovie is having trouble with. Another possibility is that one or more of your photos is corrupted.
One thing to try is to select from iMovie's menu "File > Optimize Video" (you mentioned Analyze Video, but that is quite different to Optimizing).
Another suggestion is to turn off Time Machine when exporting, if you have that running.
I may be back with other suggestions (but dish washing and wife's cuppa tea is beckoning)!
John

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Hey there,
Have a problem.
Been working on a nice clip, wanted to export the movie and I get this error message that sais:
Unable to prepare project for publishing.
The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-50)
What shall I do?? Can anyone help me out?
I have enough memory on my disk...
Thanks in advance!
T

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Hi,
I made a mistake. I have an iMovie project but I cannot anymore export the project, because I have deleted the original files.
However, I am able to play the video within iMovie by only playing it as "play full screen". If I try to play a video in the list of first page starting the imovie it would not play. A notification pops up saying "none of the missing videos were found. If the missing videos are on you computer, sync the videos to your device and relaunch iMovie." Although I already deleted my original videos..
So the movie seems to be somehow there.
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Do you know a way of how I can export the movie again?
Thank you and best regards,
Kevin

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I would like to offer you some additional hair, but I've pulled mine out as well. I have created a slideshow of my daughter's new house (a very nice place indeed) as a house-warming gift, took all the pix myself with a throw-away camera made into CD's, imported all of the photos, cropped and enhanced with Iaza online free photo editor, re-saved the new ones to a folder, imported the selected ones into iPhoto, had the best thematic photo printed in 8x10 format, bought the black DVD's, made the MPEG-4 movie as well as the suggested exportable to iPhone, created a folder with the slides, crafted a nice playlist in iTunes, merged it all in iPhoto, but cannot successfuly export it into iDVD. The technical documentation and writing for some of this stuff is sloppy and sometimes unintelligible. The instructional videos are incomplete. The One-on-One fellow was most helpful the other day and said Apple doesn't really have or support an functional DVD creation tool and suggested I choose one or another "app" at the "app store", but the reviews for the two major ones are shallow in depth and I haven't yet sprunf for the $20-$40 download so I can re-experience the difficult learning curve. The Macintoshs I once used were incredibly intuitive; the iMac requires some study. The slideshow I have is imperfect becauae it keeps reverting to custom slide-specific choices I have decided (several times) that I do not want, but it keeps slipping back into "Ken Burns" mode and some of the photos don't work in that mode because of their format. But I will settle for less-than-perfect if I can figure out the best way to export the MPEG-4 I have created into a Maxell DVD-R some time before my daughter's toddlers aged 4 and 2 get into kindergarten.

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