IMovie Compression Error!

Hey all,
I have a customer who needs to encode clips from a DV Cam to Sorenson 3. During the encode they get this error:
"A file compression error occurred
The movie could not be properly compressed. The movie may contain some data that is invalid for the type of compression selected."
So far nobody seems to know how to solve this. Any ideas anybody? Thanks

We also had this problem. Here is what worked for us. I'm interested to see if it works for anyone else.
This video project was the end product of four different students working more or less independently on the same project over the span of ten months. Each used digital still cameras, jpgs exported from PowerPoint, the internal microphone, and a number of different digital video cameras to get media into the iMovie project.
We had exported and burned many versions of this project so when it stopped working and starting giving us the Compression Error message, I knew it had to be something we just added.
The side note here is that when exporting the 20 minute video at Full Quality DV, the process will complete, but the exported file will have video but no sound. The first time we got the Compression Error message was when we exported using Expert Settings and tried just the audio. That forced it to fail.
The solution was to select small groups of clips and try to export each one. When the Share, or Export window opens, check the box at the bottom that says, Export selected clips only. If it worked, we skipped to another set. Eventually we isolated it to a section of clips and exported each clip individually. It turned out to be one of the audio dialog clips that was recorded using iMovie earlier that week. As a test, I deleted it and the entire video exported just fine. We rerecorded that audio clip and everything continued to work just fine.
I opened the Media folder inside of the iMovie project file and located the offending voice recording. It opens in QuickTime and it seems to be perfectly fine. I have no idea what was wrong with it. Two other audio clips were recorded right after that clip and they are working just fine.
I suppose this is less of a solution, and more of a work-around. Hopefully it helps someone out, because it made me crazy.
(I don't know if this is related, but the iDVD project took about an hour and a half to compress the video, but it took well over 4 hours to compress the audio on a 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 with 2 GB RAM. This seems to be common with most of the larger iDVD projects this year. I almost force quit iDVD, but getting info on the .dvdproj file showed that it was still growing.)

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Hi ebm - not sure that I can help much, but a few observations:
iMovie converts M4P files to AIFF, so that shouldn't cause a problem.
The .MOV files from the Kodak still camera may be more problematic - are you sure that the audio on them plays in iMovie? What format are those files - perhaps they're mpeg4?
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