IMovie can not export still pictures

I have this problem, since I updated to iMovie '11 today.
It does export regular videos but no still picture projects as it used to.
I bought, downloaded and installed iMovie from the new German AppStore and everything seemed fine.
Now I have created a project which includes still pictures only, with adjusted lengths and blendings.
This project is located on an external hard drive.
Whenever I try to export this project -so I can re-import it into iMovie in order be able to use those still pictures in my trailer- iMovie works on it for about 25 Minutes and does not report any errors. I have tried different locations for storage, but none of them results in a video file.
I have deleted the iMovie preferences, rebooted my MacBook, but with no result:
The exported video file is simply not there!
There is also no video file within the package of this project.
Any ideas? Please help!

I don't know why you can't export a movie, but there is no reason that you should have to make a slideshow so you can have photos in a trailer.
You can make the trailer. Then FILE/CONVERT TO PROJECT.
Now you can add photos, etc.

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