My iMovie '08 project stops exporting without notice.

Question

Here's my dilemma.
I have a 40GB video that I've edited in iMovie '08 (my Mac is quite old but it still runs fine...).
I'm running the project through my external harddrive that has plenty of space - over 950 GB.
I exported it through Quicktime with the settings:
Movie --> AVI (DV/DVPRO - NTSC) --> FPS 29.97 --> Best quality
Audio set to 48000 Hz
I have tried it THREE different times, each with a slightly different setting such as audio compression settings or even FPS, and all three times, the project stops at 33-34 GB. There is no warning, just that when I check iMovie, it LOOKS like my export was complete, but when I check the actual file, it's incomplete. The initial exporting progress looks fine. The blue bar is moving steadily and the time remaining sounds correct. I have run through the project to see if there were any flaws that would contribute to the export being halted, but found nothing. So what am I doing wrong or why is iMovie giving me so much trouble?

Answer 1

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clip-2008-11-21 18; 37; 22 1 is not conventional nomenclature for imported clips, it seems as though this clip may have been imported twice and one of the copies deleted after it has been used in the project. Have you looked in the events folder for such a clip.