Imovie can't export my movie because it "lost it"

Question

so thanks very much iMovie for telling me the export of a 1 hour movie at the original size was going to take 6 hours. I left you on overnight so you could do this. I checked at about 4 hours and you were happily processing away. And this morning where's my effing movie? Oh, you lost it. I'll just check the system log. "Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap". What kind of error message gives details like that?

Answer 1

2 hours = 120 minutes
iDVD limits in time not in amount of Gbs - and this limit includes MENU. By using a very very simple one with NO animation or audio then this need of time can be reduced to about 1 minute - leaving 119 minutes to movies.
I use "Brushed Metal" from old themes and NO animation or audio to do this on SL-DVDs
If You use DL-DVDs You can put in about x2 on a single DVD
iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.2) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus  less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
But if You need more then You can use Roxio Toast™ and here squees in about 10 hours onto a SL-DVD
BUT THE QUALITY WILL BE POOOOOR - VHS tapes recorded in LP or EP-mode will look stunning when compared - so to me this is no real option - I use Toast™ to do other things.
Yours Bengt W