IMovie Export settings crash

Every time I go to export my final project, iMovie crashes when I try to change the export settings. I click export using quicktime, then try to change the settings. However, when the settings menu pops up, it never loads, but remains white. After the busy pinwheel pops up, about 5 seconds later the whole program quits and I recieve an error message. The videos are imported from my GoPro Hero3 through Cineform studio. I have exported an earlier version with no problems, but upon the addition of footage imported from a Contour Roam, the program crashes every time.

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I can recommend you invest in David Pogue's 'iMovie 6 & DVD - The Missing Manual', which is stuffed full of such goodies.

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• no chance to bring that back with any export settings.. this is some internal prob of iM, how it handles i-material..
• next prob: iM doesn' offer any more the 'Full Quality' option for DV material .. which 'cloned' the timeline of project on export = no quality loss at all. in case, you're using miniDV/DV/Standard source, you can 'force' such an export by using Export With QT/dv-stream .. IF you're just editing, no bad effects..
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another person abuses this board for advertising here his 'solution', selling a pdf .. = $$
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A couple of thoughts...
• Think like a codec for a minute. When compressing video, encountering a tree with fluttering leaves is as bad as life gets.
• The "bad" videos were shot on bright, sunny, breezy days in a leaf-filled forest. That created a perfect storm of hard-to-compress video. The background is filled with dappled sunlight falling on in-motion leaves. There are scarcely two adjacent pixels the same from one frame to the next. It's very difficult for the camera to shoot well — the bright areas blow out and shadows go dark. Even harder to compress.
• The "good" video was shot on cloudy, hazy, shade-free days in the fall or winter. The forest has few leaves. The light is "flat" so there are many adjacent areas that are similar. It's much easier to shoot; much easier to compress.
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Thanks again for the feedback
Let me try my best to answer the above (I'm new at all this and I appreciate you guys taking the time to try and help me out).
First off, I tried rendering and that did not help.
Here is my sequence. I am not going into FCE from the camera directly. I have archived the video file from the camera using iMovie (as well as just making an exact copy of the camera files; they both appear to me to be the exact same, both can be logged and transferred into FCE, and both files give me a jagged FCE result).
Once I log and transfer the file(s), I then take the clip and add it to a sequence file (rendering or not rendering the clip(s) at this point does not make a difference), and then click/highlight the sequence file in the browser and export it.
As for "editing the video in a 1920x1080i60 sequence", I think I am. I am not doing any editing to the clip. It is logged and transferred using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i and then exported using either as a Quicktime Movie or Quicktime Conversion (set for 1920 x 1080 using H.264 compression; both ways still result in a jagged video).
That's about it...log and transfer, add clip to sequence, and then export sequence...
I hope this answers the above, but if not, I apologize; I'm still learning!
Also, if I use iMovie, with similar export (share) settings, I get a non-jagged video (I have tried with deinterlacing and not deinterlacing, and both video results are fine)
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