Publishing from iMovie '08

Hello, I have worked with iMovie for mostly slideshows and it has kept me very happy. Most of the projects I had made were about 30min or less.
This month, I had imported home videos from a Sony Handycam (which model not sure) successfully to iMovie and made a movie about 2hrs 38min long. The project size is about 3.5GB. Is that normal? I tried to publish it to iTunes and after 8 hours it said error 2125 or something like that.
Is it because the project is too big? Or because my computer is too weak? (my standard memory is 1GB).
I worked on this movie for a couple of weeks and feel like it's going down the drain. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you kindly.

Two and a half hours is a very long movie, your project size isn't unexpected but it largely depends on what size movies you were trying to publish. You will run into problems uploading very large files, may I suggest you publish in parts, which will not only provide less problematic uploading but give your audience a break.

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matthewfox1972 wrote:
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