IMovie taking forever to share anything

I've finished editing hours of video. Spent days on it. It is all chopped up into smaller movies usually under an hour in length. I have let it sit overnight to try and export and it doesn't finish, it takes forever. If I click share to file and uncheck add to Theater nothing happens. If I leave add to Theater checked it pops up in the theater but will take around 30 hours to complete. This is ridiculous. I have spent so much time on this and now all of my work is stuck inside of iMovie and I'm going to have re-edit everything in a different application because it will not export anything. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled iMovie. same thing.

I'm guessing it may be struggling with the conversion from  interlaced to progressive. (I work in interlaced so seldom these days that I don't have much to compare to.)
You may want to test a couple of alternative workflows. (Just take a 5 minute section of your interlaced project in the interest of time.)
1) Creating a progressive FCPX and pasting the section into that.
2) If you have Compressor, exporting the 5 minute section from your current project as a master file bringing that into Compressor and applying the Apple Device preset.
Russ

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