IMovie -crushing and Unable to Publish Error -50

Hello Dear Helpful People!
I have a problem with iMovie 11. It all worked fine until I today. I had problems opening the program,
then I had problems with the preview. All problems I hadn't had 2 month ago.
When I finally finished my project and wanted to export it, or publish it this error is coming:
The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (-50)
Can someone please help me?
I screened the forum for similar problems and all the solutions there couldn't help me.
I have 430 GB free Space, I located the Sharing Folder and set all permissions to Read&Write.
This is so frustrating!
I would be forever thankful if someone got an idea for me...
Thank you all so much,
Danny
MacBoook 2008
2GHz Intel Core Duo -
4GB RAM
Mac OSX 10.7.3

Hi
I located the Sharing Folder and set all permissions to Read&Write.
Please inform an ignorant person - What did You do and How ?
• As I read the Error -50
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 ?
Pictures
• in what format ? .jpg, .bmp, .tif, else ?
Audio
• from where/what format ? iTunes, .avi, .mp3, .aiff, else ?
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..
AND NEVER - Move or alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's or
• iMovie Project's
EVER
All - moving of material and Projects must be done Within the iMovie Application since iMovie'08 else it loses track of it and flips out.
Yours Bengt W

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