IMovie locking up iMac on export

iMac
27 inch, Late 2013
3.5 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600MHz DDR3
OS X 10.9.5
iMovie 10.0.5
I record youth football games every week, put together the pieces with minor editing in iMovie and then upload them to YouTube.  The Share to YouTube export option was regularly locking up my entire machine.  I've started exporting to File and then uploading the file to YouTube separately.  Even the Share to File locks up the machine from time to time. 
I try to get this onto YouTube as soon as possible and the freezing the machine forcing me to restart the whole machine definitely slows me down as you can imagine.  Any ideas?

The only thing I've found that "fixes" this is moving to a new iMovie library when I have this problem.  That is very annoying.
Would appreciate any ideas.

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