IMovie exporting failures

i have my vacation video edited to perfection with the sound at levels i am satisfied with. i cut some audio out of clips (like slow motion clips) and lowered audio on other clips. My music was lined up perfectly as well. i spent many hours getting my movie to perfection.
i tried telling it to export regularly, and through quicktime, but each time i exported the movie (which was many, many times) iMovie would not export the audio correctly. it even seemed to play audio from other clips on top of different clips. also i told it to cut the audio out of slow motion clips, but midway through the exported movie it would play the audio! it also changed the sound levels for my music clips. basically it wouldn't save most of the change i made on the clips.
i have tried restarting the program, and computer. i even tried starting completely over from scratch. the annoying thing is that iMovie is able to play the movie perfectly by itself, it just can't seem to export it.
Any advice?

I solved this sound problem by dividing my film into smaller 1:30 sections. i edited each small clip exactly how i wanted it. then i took the smaller clips and threw them all together and added in my music and it seems to work around the bug. I wish apple would fix the software bug so i didn't have to wait like two weeks to finally finish my project. thank you for the advice.

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iMovie is a great program. Unfortunately the export quality is not very good. I have tried several codecs (Apple Intermediate Codec, H.264, ++), but the result is drastic quality reduction. Very visible in dark areas and peoples faces were the no. of colors are too low. Filesize is reduced too.
The imported file (from Sony Handycam HD (CX550)) is an apple intermediate codec and the quality is great.
When exporting from iMovie useing Apple Intermediate Codec the quality setting is "medium" with no option to change this.
I also use Final Cut Express which gives much better export quality. But the program is not as intuitive and easy to use so I prefer iMovie.
The solution is to edit the movie in iMovie, export the project to Final Cut (by XML) and export QuickTime movie. With XML export all fancy transmissions are lost, but the picture quality is great. The final movie file is 3-4 times larger.
Anyone with similar experience or a solution?

I have exactly the same issues
'Very visible in dark areas and peoples faces where the no. of colors are too low. Filesize is reduced too.'
In light you won't notice but the dark is just terrible.
Important: It has not to do with interlace. Interlacing is not the problem. It's the dark areas en people faces!
I thought I found the solution.
Wat I did was:
- Export as Quictime Apple Intermediate Codec
- > If I use the Dimensions 'HD 1920 x 1080 16:9" it was terrible
If I use the Dimension '1920 x 1080 HD' it was perfect.
(Also I set the compressor to 'other' and 'interlaced' and 'top field first')
But the strange thing is: When I do it on a small piece of footage. It works perfect. When I do it on a longer project: the footage is crappy again.
I worked a week on different home video stuff and it's not fun to see this decrease of quality.
I didn't missed a toppic where someone found the solution?
I will keep you informed about my investigations...

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IMovie exports only sound to camera

Good evening everybody!
In the past I successfully exported projects to my camera.
For the first time I got this problem: iMovie exports the sound, but freezes the first frame of the movie and leaves it at that.
I tried it in two ways: by "send to camera" and by "show video on camera monitor" and simply pushing the "record" button of the camera.
When I loaded a different movie and did exactly the same thing, all went well.
Back to my new film: the same again.
What's different with my new film?
Has anybody got an idea? I'd appreciate any help!
Greetings from the middle of Germany
Torsten
G 5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hello Sir Torsten,
Glad you got it to work. I really think that Apple never intended for us to make long complex movies...I think they though iMovie would be a fun app to make short little entertaining movies so they didn't carefully investigate all the nuances before releasing it.
For the most part, iMovie has worked great for most people. Just reading these discussions you can get some idea of the various projects that are being created and it is really remarkable from such a simple program. And, the other fantastic thing to remember is that so many of the problems we encounter DO have solutions or work-arounds!
BTW, it is now cooler and wetter here, too

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What is the proper setting for iMovie exports to the iPhone?
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Anyone? I know the "iPod" settings work, but that is not the ideal iPhone screen resolution.
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I had the same problem getting iMovies over to my AppleTV and found a solution that works for iPhone too.
In iMovie click: Share>Share...>Quicktime (at top of box)>Expert Settings (under Compress Movie For)>Share (button at bottom of box)>Movie to iPhone (on Export: pick list). Click Save at the bottom of the dialog and you're off!
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Import Wizard: Unknown export failure

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"CrystalEnterprise.Folder","3715","AYEywY5nSSNHoy1.hQm8NZ8","APPLICATION Universes","4","Error","Unknown export failure."
"CrystalEnterprise.MetaData.DataConnection","4874","AStHrjF7ETVNvIIvq4xffXs","APPLICATION CONN","4","Error","Unknown export failure."
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"CrystalEnterprise.CustomRole","6658","Aaw6myUxTcdCsXdSV0vIEyM","Admin_Access","4","Error","Unknown export failure."
"CrystalEnterprise.CustomRole","193","AVog52Tl72ZGvIReeqKndUA","Full Control","4","Error","Unknown export failure."
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System: DC38-SNR-WEB01
User: Administrator
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BIAR file: C:\Users\joness\Desktop\test.biar
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ID: 3715
Title: APPLICATION Universes
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ID: 4874
Title: APPLICATION CONN
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ID: 3600
Title: APPLICATION UNIV48 Summary
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ID: 3599
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Title: Admin_Access
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ID: 193
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I have just started using Imovie and it worked great for about a week until it crashed when exporting/finalizing my outro. I read many threads about this and one guy had it right on. He went through extensive work to fix the issue then at the end said it seemed to happen from picture in picture. I would agree since my other videos export/finalize fine but when I add picture in picture they seem to almost always fail. I found that one fix it to just close everything on my computer and just keep trying to finalize/export the 12s clip. My 15-20 min videos export but my 12s picture in picture won't. Looking for quick simple fix.
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I edited my project in Adobe Premiere Elements 10 and want to color correct it in Davinci Resolve Lite. I tried to export my mov files (shot on 60 D 1920x1080 25 fps) to QT h.264, so I can import them in Davinci. I have the same Problem when I want to export to uncompressed YUF 8bit.
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I am sorry to hear about your problems.
Do you have the latest QuickTime Version installed?
There is another workaround where you "Share" the
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Then share the new to the camera. I know that seems a
bit too much to have to do.
(please don't yell at me...just trying to help :))
Sue
Thanks for answering Sue. I'm not going to bite the hand that tries to help me. I've read many of your help suggestions on this forum and you think of things that just don't occur to me.
I have pro QT pro 7.1.3. Also QT player version 7.1.2. Is this a problem? I can't seem to get rid of QT player without affecting QT pro. Before upgrading to 10.4
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