IMovie audio export limit?

I've been using iMovie HD to edit about 8 hours of audio together. However I try to export it (via "Share") it always produces an audio file that (apparently) has just 1:48:33
(one hour, 48 minutes, 33 seconds) of audio in it. (It shows the same whether I open it in iTunes, Quicktime Player, or pull it back into iMovie HD.) Is there some sort of built-in limit? Surely this is a bug, isn't it?
I'm trying to build one big audio file that I can load into an iPod.
Thanks for your help.

sorry, for being cynical... less coffee that
morning....
as far as I undertand your workflow:
you have made an audio recording in iM of 8h
length....
you have a problem to export as a single piece...?
a) get Audacity,
it is free, lots of options...
b) split your audio in iM into some "chunks", letssay
30min.
c) hit export/share, choose "selection only", choose
Quicktime, expert options, aiff...
d) you get.... 16 audio files...
e) import that into audacity, glue it together,
export as whatever...
I at first tried an AIFF here. Which was a 10 GB file.
Quicktime Player could play it, and it looked to be the
full 8 hours.
Unfortunately, iTunes wouldn't let me add that to the
library; so I couldn't use iTunes to convert it into
something (like a MP3 or AAC) that would fit on my
iPod shuffle. I was able to use Audacity to make
an MP3 directly (bypassing iMovie and the conversion
part of iTunes), which did what I wanted.
f) import into iTunes to download to iPod...
g) there some tool at Apple Website to create from
aac to ... "audio books"... sorry, search on your
own... allows you iPod to come back where you
stopped...
probably there's an easier way... that would be
mine..
next time, do your recording in Audacity... nice
tool, you can add a little more "size" or some reverb
to it....
The interface in iMovie HD was actually a little easier to use for what I was doing. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work for big files, for some reason.
Here's some more info on the original problem: The audio files that I tried to make via export from iMovie (which were truncated at 1 hour, 43 minutes), turned out to be about 4 GB big. I tried both AIFF and WAV format, and they were both almost exactly the same size. Maybe there's a built-in output limit there?
-Doug

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