Quicktime Player: You don't have permission to save ...

I am using Quicktime Player to stitch together short .mp4 videos taken on an iPhone or head cam. When I export the composition although it states it is saving the it, I end up with a message "You don't have permission to save the file "***.mp4v".
I have used Quicktime successfully to stitch together You Tube clips.
Where am I going wrong?
Thank you

I have the same issue - when I edited the clip in QuickTime Player.
I removed sections via Split, which seemed to cause the problem.
To solve this, just close the quicktime window. QT will ask if you want to save. Save.
Now re-open the file and do your export - should work fine.
Well, it did for me.
It appears it's not too hot at exporting an unsaved clip that's been split?

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