Trouble sharing iMovie project. Up to 50+ hours left, is something wrong?

I've been trying to export this project to a DVD for weeks and I don't know what else to do. I went out and bought more ram so now my computer has 4GB and the imovie project is still taking forever. The hours keep increasing, now it says over 50, but the Activity Monitor says iMovie isn't responding. Do I shut it down or keep waiting days for it to finish? Is something wrong with it? Please help, I've been trying to finish this project for weeks and I don't know what to do. I'm trying to patient but since the AM says it isn't responding I wonder if I'm just wasting time.

I would suggest making your movie into a series of shorter movies. Try to keep them to 20 minutes or less, but you might get one slightly longer if you need it. An hour and 26 minutes is very long for iMovie. If you really need a movie that long, I would suggest Final Cut Pro X.
To make your movie shorter, go to the Project Library View and select your movie so that it is highlighted. Then click FILE/DUPLICATE PROJECT and give the duplicate a name, like "Wedding - Reception". Then delete everything except the reception scenes. You can repeat this process for your other short movies. Be sure to keep your original long movie intact, and only work on the duplicates. If you ever decide to get Final Cut Pro X, you can import this project and do the whole thing.
Congratulations on your wedding.

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A work around is to export from your camera roll.
So export the video to the camera roll.
Go to Photos app,
and choose export (the arrow pointing out), and choose to go to you tube form there.
It tends to be a little more reliable.
Hope that helps!
Also please tell Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie_iOS.html
They tend not to care about a few things being busted in their equipment, but might fix it if enough people complain.

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So, recently I tried sharing an iMovie project with YouTube. I clicked on the project in my project library, then selected share with YouTube from the drop down menu. I chose to share it as a HD 720 project. At this point, I had 27 GB of free hard drive space. After the project was converted (or whatever it's called, a process which took about half an hour, and which left me with about 6.5 GB of hard drive space), but before the project was actually exported or shared with or uploaded or published to YouTube (the second step), I saw that it was going to take three hours to upload, so I decided I wanted to share it as a non-HD video, in order to save time and space on my HD. I cancelled the upload. I then deleted the project in my imovie projects folder (since it now had the HD logo beside the name), intending to just start over and share the project in 960x540. Thing is, after deleting every trace of it I could find in iMovie, in my Documents Folder, in my Movies folder, and in iTunes, I only reclaimed 4 GB of space on my hard drive (leaving me with 10 GB). So what happened to the missing 17 GBs, and how can I get them back? Also, the amount of space used in order to share that project just seems excessive to me, so I realize that something else might be going on here. Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?
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You're in the wrong forum.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

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I'm trying to share an iMovie project to the theater on my computer, not to iCloud. Project is complete, I am not signed in to iCloud. After clicking on the correct project to select it, when I click on "Share" then select theater I get the annoying beep the mac uses when it can't do something. No error message or anything. What do I need to do? Using iMovie version 10.0.3, Mac OS X 10.9.2 on a MacBook Air. Thanks for any help!

I know what the problem is, it's related to Time Machine on laptops running the 10.7 Lion OS.
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I have a large imovie project, but want to finish it in FCE. How do I import it so A) it will play? B) not have a tone opf space inserted between clips?
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If you can live with one long clip (that you can cut up as needed in FCE) you can make a dv stream out of your iMovie project and import that. You will have to render the audio and may run into the problem I did of "Out of Memory" when rendering the audio. But you can probably fix the memory problem by erasing unneeded render files.

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tia...

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Get the camera connection kit to share video.
But I believe you cannot share projects without a computer.
I got the camera connection kit and it is perfect for the situation you describe.
You can grab photos and video from other cameras including the iPhone.

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I have create a project in iMovie and am attempting to share to the theater. The share icon when clicked does nothing. And when I select share in the drop down menu, it's an option (it's in bold) but their are no options appearing from the arrow.
There used to be a finalize project step you had to go through, but this doesn't appear either. The specific project I am trying to share is "selected" (has a yellow box around it) but I am getting no where in finalziing and share.
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Kirk, I did have to remove mackeeper, but this alone did not solve the problem. I also had to remove and reinstall imovie. Thank you for your help.

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tads99 wrote:
It says you can use USB stick and that you simply hit "command" and drag the small icon of the project to the USB (when looking in iMovie at the project library list).
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Matt

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the message I keep getting (after waiting for the agonizing time to render it) is either (-108) or (-50). It is aggravating when it gives NO description of what needs fixed. how do I find the codes to fix my project?

The error message says, “An error occurred while trying to access the service. I have a PC with Windows 7, I don’t know if the PDF was created in Adobe, the document contains text and tables.
I had this problem before when I logged on to the Adobe website and tried to concert a document from there. The person who helped me then was unable to figure out why I was getting the error message. He told me to open the Adobe reader and convert the document from there. That has worked until now. I tried to logon to the Adobe website and convert from there, but get the same error message.
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I have 2 Macs, connected to the same Wifi network. But sometimes, the shared computers does not appear on the left hand menu of the toolbar for me to access shared folders between the computers. Am I doing something wrong?

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I have found with AppleTV that it is the IPV6 on the computer you want to access is the problem. The issue is that Homegroup on Win 7 or Win 8 requires IPV6 to work, but AppleTV won't work with IPV6. (So maybe double check you have IPV6 turned off)
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Oh, no, the iMovie project I spent two hours on yesterday morning doesn't appear in the Project window of iMovie and will not open when I double-click on it from the Finder
I've browsed this forum and found several threads asking about things like this (going back to 2008!), but no answers.
Everything was fine yesterday, nothing weird happened, it's not a complex project. I imported Events from my camera, started a new project, made a few edits with just 4 clips, a few crossfades and titles, simple stuff. There were no external drives connected, the camera had been ejected and disconnected. All the Events are still there, but the project doesn't show up in iMovie's project list.
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rebooting
restarting iMovie by double-clicking on this Project
dragging the project into the iMovie Project list (it just bounces back).
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FYI, I did NOT mess around in the Finder, moving things in and out of the iMovie folders. iMovie did not crash, it closed normally. The Info window of the project that won't open does identify it as an iMovie Project.
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Trouble sharing iMovie project. Up to 50+ hours left, is something wrong?

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