The movie could not be sent to idvd because of an unknown er

The movie could not be sent to idvd, because of an unknown error.
I'm puzzled on this one I have created a movie from DV clips, the total movie length is 27 mins and I have 37gb of space left on the external drive, where the movie is stored.
Does anyone have any further information to resolve this?
Many Thanks
Matt

Hi Karsten, actually I did try moving it to the "Movies" folder on the internal drive, but still received the same error message. Right know we're having to export the movie back on a mini-DV tape and then reimport it back into iMovie as a new import in order to burn a DVD, but this means that we won't be able to edit the transitions, text, etc. in the future. We haven't had this specific problem before. I even tried pulling up another iMovie file on the external HD just as a test and had no problems in exporting it to iDVD, so it's something with this particular iMovie file that is causing the trouble. It's very frustrating! Any more suggestions would be most welcome!
Thanks,
Steve

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The flash drive I'm attempting to save to has almost 80mb of available space. Also, something /does/ get saved on my drive, but the (Windows) computer I try to transfer it to won't recognize it and my MacBook's QuickTime refuses to play it.
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Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
iMovie - and other Mac programs - prefer (..or need!..) to have any discs, or other devices on which you're saving movie files, to be formatted as 'Mac OS Extended'.
That's different from the (generally) FAT32 format which Windows PCs use. And although Macs can read Windows-formatted discs - so your MacBook can read what's on your Windows-formatted flash disc - Windows machines generally cannot read Mac-formatted discs, so, er, you'd have a problem or two if you want to use any Mac-formatted device with a Windows machine!
Your flash drive - and anything else on which you've saved your 2.5 minute iMovie video - would need to be formatted as 'Mac OS Extended' if you want to use it for iMovie editing ..but you should be able to store a 'self-contained' QuickTime movie on it perfectly well in its PC-formatted state, and that movie should play in Windows when you plug it into a Windows machine if you have the latest Windows version of QuickTime on the Windows PC.
So maybe you exported your iMovie to QuickTime, onto the flash disc, but not as a self-contained movie. If it IS self-contained, then the complete movie would be there, and it's pretty much guaranteed to play. But if you didn't tick the 'self-contained' check-box, then all that gets saved is a very small file (called a "reference file") with a set of "pointers" to what's in the original iMovie project. In other words, you've saved only the details of how to play the movie, without actually saving the actual video file(s), which remain on your MacBook, instead of being on the flash disc.

?? "The movie could not be sent to Quicktime because a file couldn't be..."

trying to export a movie in iMovie HD - and that's what it says:
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then .... "Visit http://support.apple.com/ for more information on this issue."
ok. where on support?
anyone have any ideas on this? I have installed iLife08 - is this the issue?
tia.

Thanks for the reply. I hadn't thought about that - but it IS an external and it is not OSX extended. I exported to my internal drive and all worked well. wonderful! problem solved - I'd never noticed that before, and I was sure I'd exported to that drive before. so, I tried again - presto it worked - I exported it to the external. so... the error message that came the first time went away.
.... strange
but ... solved?
thanks again,
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