TA22866 Error -40 when exporting from imovie?

I am trying to get an old movie I created off an old imac from 2000.
When I export it to quicktime in "Medium quality", it works ok.
When I export it to quicktime in "Hiigh quality", it exports and creates the file but when I try to open it in quicktime or drag it to a USB thumb drive, it cannot do either one and says an error -40 has occurred.  Can anyone help?  I really want to get this movie off the old imac and not in medium quality.
Thanks!

Thank you for the suggestion. I had stopped trying to use iMovie '09 at all for several days, then went back to it to try creating a movie from a different original source material, one that I had successfully exported movies from in the past (a Kodak Zi6). To my surprise, I got the same error as the one I got from my quicktime generated mp4's.
When this occurs, it seems to almost complete the encoding process. I can see a file on disk, that grows to about the size that the final export movie should be. I even created a hardlink to that file so that when iMovie '09 errors out, I still have a copy of the exported movie. However, there is something about the metadata on the file that inhibits my ability to even open it with Quicktime.
When I attempt to use "open movie.mp4" at the command-line, it immediately errors out with:
Some files were not found for the file /Volumes/gks/Pictures/HCRO/timelapse/eno-titles-backup.mp4.
I'm unfamiliar with fixing up these sorts of metadata forks on macosx, but suspect this is fixable after the fact.
Also, it turns out that your suggestion to lower the bit rate to 2500-5000 was helpful! I've been able to export movies using the lower bit rate. This is rather unfortunate though as the lower quality is notable... sigh.
So, it appears that this is an issue with iMovie '09 interacting with the quicktime codec for H.264.

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