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Gratefully found you guys the other day as crisis unfolded. Realised from reading here that problem with editing my movie was iLife '06. I'd installed it mid-project as well. Slapped wrist, lesson learned. Followed recipe to re-install 5. Went well. Then found another post to solve my stereo-to-mono issues on the movie. But couldn't send movie to Garageband without iLife '06. Re-installed it to try (i know, i know, I'm learning.) Definitely not good. So ducked out and decided to go back to iMovie 5, re-installed from CD. Movie finished, I go to export/share it to Video Camera. It won't share. With anything. From the Maxtor or the desktop. It'll burn a DVD when I go to iDVD within the iMovie programme. But if I click the Share tab in the menu, absolutely nothing at all happens.
thoughts (printable)? Matt
older G4 17 in. powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5)
older G4 17 in. powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5) working from external Hard Drive
older G4 17 in. powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Matt,
We must be operating in parallel universes. Did same thing this week. However, I had a little bit better luck-sort of. iMovie kicked out a staggering and fragmented version of my project when I tried to share it with my camera. Totally unuseable.
What's more, it didn't respond to simple start or stop commands.
After a long conversation with an Apple online genius, it all boiled down to this. iMovie 6 with the qurtz effects is generaly too much for the G4 to handle. He recommended shorter projects and to forget trying to share to mini DV.
As for Garage band. That was a dismal failure. I'll stick with creating tracks separately and then adding it to the movie project without GB's scoring feature. It's a nice idea but it's not working with my G4.
--Jaycam

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