IMovie won't export my movie to desktop file

I have created my movie but iMovie and clicked "share" then clicked "file" and asked it to go to the desktop. Nothing happens. Can someone help me? I have also tried sharing to facebook and Toytube with same lack of result.

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IMovie won't export my movie

Every time I try to export my movie from iMovie, I keep getting a message that states, "Unable to prepare project for publication. The project could not be prepared for publication because an error occurred. (File already open with write permission). HELP

Find the project with finder and change read write permissions to everyone?
Are you running in administrator?

My Imovie won't export a movie I created, my laptop won't support new software. I need to reinstall the program but don't know how.

I would like to reinstall Imovie onto my MacBook and don't know how.

iMovie is part of iLife. It should be on the #2 gray instalation disk that came with your MacBook
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IMovie won't export to Vimeo

Trying to upload a 720p movie - data appears to be moving - Activity Monitor shows 5 GB of data uploaded, iMovie never finishes. Exported movie to desktop, then uploaded with Safari. 11 other movies exported to Vimeo with iMovie prior to this attempt.

Occasionally this happens with Facebook, YouTube or Vimeo. With YouTube the problem has more often been related to the Login credentials but occasionally will fail to upload like what you saw. Unfortunately the only work around is EXACTLY what you did, export to desktop and upload through a web browser. From reading other messages on the iMovie Discussion Group, I have not seen one original poster write back to the group with a fix or steps they took to re-enable the uploads through iMovie. It seems like it's more often the case it works, and works, then it doesn't work. And fails to work after that.

IMovie won't export "missing media" and now won't import archived footage either?

Hello,
I made a movie in iMovie 10.0.3, and tried to export it to "file". It came up fine in the Theatre, but when I exported it to "file" a message about "missing media" came up, and when I tried to play it (tried to burn it to DVD), a further message about "quicktime not recognising the format" came up. It was saved as an mp4 file. I thought I would try and delete all the original footage and reimport it from the external HDD (where it was saved as archived footage), however when I plug the HDD in, the previously imported clips don't come up. I've emptied the trash to try and help (clutching at straws!), and was wondering if anyone could offer advice on how to a. export the movie successfully or b. reimport the clips so I can make the movie again (long and tedious, but possibly the only way?).
Thanks in advance.
ps this is my first time posting, so please be gentle with a newbie!

Found the solution myself! All I needed to do was turn off the Time Machine. I have no idea why it does that. Finally, I can use iMovie again! Apple should really fix that though.

-50 error on iMovie '09 when exporting a movie! What should I do?

I am trying to export a movie with iMovie and a message keeps popping up that it is unable to export my video due to an error. It says (-50) at the end as well. What should I do?

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IMovie won't share my movie.

Hello,
I'm now finished with editing my movie. When i try to share the movie as a file or to youtube it gives me this message:
"This object can not be shared as long as
it still has references to the media on camera."
What does it mean, how can i fix this? Yes i did import the files from my camcorder to iMovie. (I'm using a Canon XA10)
Thanks

I don't see anything obvious that is wrong.
I would try the following.
Use SHARE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME
Choose MOVIE TO QUICKTIME MOVIE
Click Options.
For Video Compression, choose Apple Intermediate Codec.
For size, choose current size or 720x480.
Then save it where you can find it.
If that works, you can take the file in Apple Intermediate Codec and convert it to h264 in an app like MPEG Streamclip or QuickTime Player.

Flash CS4 won't export to .mov PLEASE HELP ME!!

Like the title says, i've been trying to export my .fla as a .mov from the Export>Export Movie option in the File menu. It will start exporting but once the progress meter gets to the end it just stops and never finishes.
I don't think it has anything to do with:
A: multiple scenes
B: actionscript directing to each scene
C: movieclips
since I was doing the exact same thing in CS3 without a problem.
What i'm doing now in CS4 that I wasn't in the CS3 version:
A: Motion tweens
B: importing .ai files to my library
C: using symbols created for flash in illustrator from imported .ai files.

Thank you Zombie. Specifying the length helped me export as a quicktime movie.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a rubbish piece of coding in Flash CS4 that doesn't let you export a movie over 1 minute long without specifying the length of movie.
Ridiculous really. I expect this could be fixed in seconds by Adobe, but instead I'm left trawling the internet for hours wasting budget.

IMovie won't read all my Canon HF100 files.

I have a Canon HF100 camcorder. I record in FXP or 1080 HD video mode, 60 frames. My PC reads and imports the video just fine.
I have a brand new Macbook Pro 15" intel cpu machine with iMovie 09. When I use one of the memory cards to import video it works fine. When I use the other memory card to import video it doesn't even see the camera. It will import pics from it into iPhoto and mounts the camera so you can see the files but iMovie won't even recognize it.
The cards are both formatted fat 32, all video on both is recorded in the same format, both cards had pictures on them as well as the video. I have tried everything I can to get iMovie to read the files, everything suggested on the forums and researched the heck out of this. It won't recognize one of my cards, even though everything else on the mac will. I have 14 gig of HD video to import and am running out of options. I don't have the money to buy another program just to get THIS program to read the files. iMovie 09 was supposed to be HD compatible....why doesn't it have native .mts file support? these cameras have been out for over a year or two and are some of the more popular ones around now. Please help if you can!!!!

D. Thomas Lamourine wrote:
well, it seems that the card is bad from what you say. Are you plugging the camera directly to the mac? or using a card reader? what type of card? (guessing MMC/SD card?) how big is the card? if you can get it to show on the desktop then make a folder and manually drag the files off the card and into the folder a few at a time. You will probably find one or 2 corrupt and wont move over so don't try and do them all at once because it'll just bog down. do the smaller ones first!!
you may also find that very large files SEEM to be not seen but it's just the USB/Firewire/system need a LOT of time to transport and convert the file into mac.. (not really what it's doing but give you and idea)
As was stated you may need to reformat the card because its got bad data areas/blocks. From what you are stating it's more than likely the card, not the computer/software.
I have had issues with a friends camera importing to Imovie. My camera and his both record in AVI format but mine I can import directly where his I have to run it through Quicktime Pro and convert to MOV files.. why? no clue but it works.
I would love it if it was just a bad card but check this out. The files are all perfectly fine. They can be copied to my mac no problem. I imported them all to my Windows PC and they play / edit just fine. I'm working with a free file converter to change them into what, mpeg4? I really really don't want to buy VoltaicHD just for a memory card worth (albeit 16 gig of video) of video. I DID find this on Canon's website....
+Issue: What is the Mac compatibility of my camcorder?+
+Solution: The digital video solutions disk is compatible with Mac OS 10.2 up to 10.4 for stills only. No video related software is provided.+
+The video connectivity of the Canon DVD and Hard Disc Drive camcorders provided by the software bundled with them is designed for use with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Windows Vista only. The Sonic Roxio My DVD software included with some models is only compatible with the Windows XP SP2 operating system when combined with a computer supporting the USB 2.0 specification.+
+Macintosh OS10.4.3 and up users may be able to view the contents of a finalized disk or files recorded onto the hard drive (for hard disc drive models) on the computer when it is connected to a USB port on the computer. With a finalized disk loaded into the camcorder the camera should show up on the desktop as a mounted drive and files may be copied (dragged) from the disk using normal procedures. Any desired editing, playback or other features may require additional third party software.+
+Note: Proper operation is not guaranteed.+
Now I already have reformatted the card and put the files back on it, still no dice. I've tried everything I can think of, I have no other codecs on my machine but QT native codecs. From what Ive read on the forums and such it seems that iMovie and the lack of support by Apple for .mts and .m2ts file formats in general is the main problem. It seems people have random problems with HD camcorders. Some people it works fine for and some it doesn't..I am one of the unlucky ones with intermittent compatibility. Fun. I have spent SO much time on this problem I almost took my mac back. This is my first Mac and while I love it to death, I am getting real tired of the unsupported crap and having to download other programs to get it to work right when it was supposed to do so in the beginning. I'm not trying to rant, just really frustrated at all the extra expense after having paid 2400$ for what was supposed to do it by itself. From what Canon said on their website, apparently there ARE issues with mac compatibility and it may or may not work. yay. Oh well, I guess I'm stuck paying for more 3rd party software.
Also, yea, I cannot import AVI files into iMovie even after I installed divx...good stuff.
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Is XMP import/export for MOV/MTS/MP4 files not supported?

I have been evalutating LR4 and am stuck on how to import my files from another DAM into LR4.
I am able to write XMP into JPG files, and provide sidecar XMP files for RAW (CR2) and MOV/MP4/MTS files, writing my hierarchical keyword information into the xmp-dc:Subject and xmp-lr:HierarchicalSubject fields.
LR4 seems to read the XMP keywords from the JPG and RAW files just fine and re-creates my keyword hierarchy.
LR4 seems to ignore on import the XMP for the non-image files such as the MOV/MP4/MTS files for which I have provided sidecar files.
LR4 also does not write out XMP files for the non-image files, when I use save Medatada.
Does LR4 just ignore import/writing XMP for these non-image files?
Thanks,

MTS files can't really accept metadata embedding -your best bet is to use ClipWrap to "re-wrap" AVCHD/MTS files into MOV files.
This still does not fix the problem of LR not writing XMP data to video files. Unfortunately, if you want to have metadata that stays with your MOV files, you'll want to use something aside form LR4 -I wouldn't bother doing much video cataloging in LR4.

IMovie won't export a 3 picture movie (no video)

Having problems with my mac recently (actually my wife's mac). For years she has been doing movies with iMovie and iDVD and loves it overall. However, on her recently new (month old), she has a Macbook Pro, 16 gig ram, 2 gig video ram 750gig flash SSD drive storage, OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 latest patches, etc. She for some reason can NOT do an export of a movie. It is complaining about not enough memory.
So, from other posts, I did the sodu purge as admin user and cleared the memory file cache that was 6 gig... brought it back down to about 500k -- more reasonable. I then started iMovie to publish and it still failed. As soon as iMovie started, the file cache kicked back up to 3 gig which does not make sense. So I exited iMovie, re-purged and restarted iMovie.
I then created a new project. Put 3 single pictures in it -- no video at all. Then did publish and it nagged again about not enough memory. I even had the export down to mobile device output for smallest possible (vs HD1080 format).
It is like it has something permanently stuck in its craw and won't let go.
Now, another few things... I have done a full logout AND full shutdown SEVERAL TIMES and it still won't allow a published export.
Please help !!

iMovie is part of iLife. It should be on the #2 gray instalation disk that came with your MacBook
While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us use iMovie. There's an iMovie Support Community where everybody uses iMovie. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer. https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

IMovie 10.0.7 won't export my movie.

I have restarted, shut off time machine, removed a fast motion clip, I have enough HD space and I still get error -50. Please help!

I'afraid it was a mistake to remove the event from the library using the Finder. (It is never a good idea to mess with the contents of libraries with the Finder). It would have been better to move the event from within iMovie to a different library then move that library to some external storage to free up space.
You can't replace the event with the Import function - that is for adding clips to an event.
Libraries containing events from earlier versions of iMovie should be updated automatically, (after you accept a notification that they need to be updated) but you now have an event that iMovie no longer "knows about" and which contains projects which are also out of date. At least you have the original media from the event back but I don't know how you can restore the projects unless you have a backup of the library from the earlier version of iMovie that contains the problem event.
probably not a solution but I hope this helps.
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Imovie won't export 1080p...

Hi Folks, I understand this topic has been discussed before but all previous solutions have not worked for me so, want to see if anyone in 2015 has any new insights. This is a long one, My apologies upfront.
I have footage shot from 3 different cameras: a Canon 5mkII, GoPro Hero 4 Black, and a Sony VG-30. All set to 1080p 24fps....cool?....cool.
The Sony VG30 records in AVCHD which is a friggin nightmare file format. I had a lot of trouble getting a solid conversion to .mov that said I did successfully convert them to usable .mov. I have double checked the files in quicktime to verify that they are all 1080p files. HOWEVER The formats appear to be different. Would this create an issue for a final export?? Here are the specs for each camera:
- Gopro: GoPro AVC ENcoder, 1920x1080 AAC, 48000 Hz, Stereo (L R)
- Canon 5dkII: H.264, 1920x1080 Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian sign... (that's all quicktime shows)
Ok so the Sony VG30, Like i said I had a **** of a time getting a solid conversion, it seemed the longer clips needed a different conversation than the shorter ones, I had to do 3 different conversions to get all the footage into something usable here are the 3 formats:
Sony VG30 AVCHD/MTS Converted to .mp4 with Adobe Lightroom: AVC Coding, 1920x1080 AAC, 48000 Hz Stereo (L R)
Sony VG30 AVCHD/MTS Converted to aac.mov with "Free AVCHD to MOV" (from app store): H.264, 1920x1080 AAC, 48000 Hz, Stereo (L R)
Sony VG30 AVCHD/MTS Converted to prores.mov with "Free AVCHD to MOV" (from app store): Apple ProRes 422, 1920x1080 Linear PCM, 32 bit little-endian floati...(that's all quicktime shows)
Ok so we are on the same page. We have verified that all the files are 1080p.
in iMovie I have a created a black 1920x1080 background as the first clip to start the video. As I understand it, iMovie uses the first clip to determine the movies resolution. additionally the 2nd clip comes from the Canon, which I've never had issues with. So we can rule that out too.
The last thing I did was duplicate the movie and remove all clips from the Sony and GoPro camera. This is where it gets strange. I removed clips one at time, and in between each clip removal I checked the export setting to see if 1080p became available. After removing ALL the sony and Gopro clips, 1080p WAS Available!!!!!
BUT!!!!!
As this point the only clips in the movie were from the Canon, This is my primary camera and never have an issue like this. Thinking the problem was solved I started adding clips from just the Canon, after adding a few clips i check the export settings again and 1080p is GRAYED OUT!!!! ***!!! only 720p is available.
So this is where I'm at. I have no clue why this thing is stuck at 720p. It defies logic and I'm really stressing out. Any help or insight is greatly appreciated. I'm at a point where I starting from scratch is practically not an option. I'm assuming the formats has something to do with it, If someone could tell me which is the incompatible format, swapping out the clips isn't that bad, but right now, I'd spend hours in trial and error to figure out which clips are the wrong format. It would be a huge help. Thank you in advance!
--RC

Just an update, on the duplicate movie i made, I deleted all clips EXCEPT the 1920x1080 background image in the first clip position, and the export option is still stuck at 720p!
unbelievable....
It's clear that the movies inaccessible metadata or preferences are locked up at 720p. Why on earth did they take away "export using quicktime"??? ARGH! so frustrating.

IMovie Doesn't Export My Movie !!!

Hi, I've Been working on iMovie for a while, but today, I tried to export a 20 min. movie to a high quality with DV-PAL 25 FPS, it does export but it only play 9 second of the movie !!!
the file size is nearly 5 GB !!
I really need help !

it does export but it only play 9 second of the movie
What happens then? Program quits? It plays, but only black? You get a kernel panic?
Where do you play it? QT Player?
If you check the movie info in QT Pleayer, what does it say (regarding playing time for instance)?

Imovie can't export my movie because it "lost it"

so thanks very much iMovie for telling me the export of a 1 hour movie at the original size was going to take 6 hours. I left you on overnight so you could do this. I checked at about 4 hours and you were happily processing away. And this morning where's my effing movie? Oh, you lost it. I'll just check the system log. "Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap". What kind of error message gives details like that?

2 hours = 120 minutes
iDVD limits in time not in amount of Gbs - and this limit includes MENU. By using a very very simple one with NO animation or audio then this need of time can be reduced to about 1 minute - leaving 119 minutes to movies.
I use "Brushed Metal" from old themes and NO animation or audio to do this on SL-DVDs
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• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
But if You need more then You can use Roxio Toast™ and here squees in about 10 hours onto a SL-DVD
BUT THE QUALITY WILL BE POOOOOR - VHS tapes recorded in LP or EP-mode will look stunning when compared - so to me this is no real option - I use Toast™ to do other things.
Yours Bengt W

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