TS2346 Heap zone issue?

Every tiem I try to export my iMovie project, I get a Heap Zone issue. Any help would be great...

If you are really lucky, this simple fix may work for you.  Turn off (full quit) every other program on your computer.  No email, excel, internet, etc and see if the iMovie can process.  When I encountered this problem last year, shutting everything else down solved my problem.  Unfortunately, that did not solve my problem this year. 
I believe the issue is not enough contiguous space but I may be confusing my 'problems'.  Hope you get lucky!

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    I cannot finalize a project in iMovie, notwithstanding 175g of memory.  Could this be a virus or other operating problem.  Have shut down iMovie several times and moved more projects to hard drive to free up space.  Help!

    Hi
    Error -108 memFullErr  Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
    Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
    (the application down in Dock)
    But can mean many thing's - My first thought is
    • Free Space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ? (other disks do not count)
    175Gb should be enough.
    Yours Bengt W

  • I am being plagued by that infamous "heap zone" error, can someone perform some magic and fix this for me?

    Last night I tried to save an iMovie project that was a little over 5 minutes long, minimal transistions, moderate effects, minimal text, and some pictures and music. I have been attempting to export it at 1080p to a folder on my HD but I keep getting the heap zone error. What I don't get is a week ago I was able to export a very similar project about 4 and half minutes with no problem.
    The basic specs of my Macbook Air (mid 2011 model, 11-inch running OS X 10.7) are: 120GB solid state hard drive, 4 GB of RAM, and a 1.6 GHz Intel core i5 processor. I currently have available around 13GB of storage left on the main drive, and I have an external connected (paired with Time Machine). Now, I have been researching this problem all last night and all this morning and several of the known "solutions" have not worked for me. Looking in my Activity Monitor it seems whenever I try to export this project through iMovie, the "Free" RAM just progressively drops until it hits about 450MB of RAM and then I get the heap zone error message. and while I have been able to free up about 2.5Gb of RAM prior to exporting the project, it still manages to eat up all but 400-500Mb and then gives me the error. I'm pretty lost at what to do. Here's what I've tried so far:
    - First instinct, restarted the computer
    - Closed out most of my usually running programs
    - Used the "Purge" command in terminal to free up 'Inactive' RAM (though it only free'd up a little bit, it always stops at 400Mb)
    - Downlaoded a Cache Cleaner and did a 'medium' cleaning of local and system cache
    - Turned off Time Machine
    - Tried saving to my external drive instead of the main one (so obviously it's not a storage issue)
    - Eliminated the use of special characters from the title
    - Closed all processes in the Activity Monitor that weren't vital or being run by the system
    None of those worked and I consistently got the heap zone error at the same point, about 1/10 of the way through in 'Preparing Project' Is there any other solutions to this problem? Preferrably ones that don't involve, deleting significant files or items from my drive, re-installing the OS, or any other drastic system changes because afterall my system hasn't drastically changed in the past week that iMovie WAS working so this has to be a simple fix.
    I'm really just getting annoyed and fed up with this so PLEASE someone have the right answer.

    Hi
    This is a complex Error - so this is the notes I've got - so far
    Error -108 memFullErr  Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
    Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
    (the Application down in the Dock - not the Device)
    But this can mean many thing's - My first thought is
    • Free Space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ? (other disks do not count)
    AppleMan1958
    Are your event clips in h.264? If so, you can solve this by Right clicking on your Event Name and choose "Optimize Media". You can choose Full for 1080P or Large for 960P according to your preference.
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    Lennart Thelander
    -108 mean you are running out of (free) RAM.
    Try restarting the computer just prior to sharing. That frees up RAM.
    from mynameisearl
    Final Entry
    Ok - after much cutting, trial and error and days of work I have never really established a root cause for the -108 error. Nothing I did resolved the issue to the orginal project.
    The only work around I have found is to split the Original Project into two.
    What I found was that anything around the 60 mins mark and above just failed to render in HD and showed the -108 error.
    What worked for me was creating two project files - one around 57mins long - the other a part 2 - around 17 mins long. All using exactly the same source clips, photo's, music and transitions as the orginal.
    This now works. I guess having it split in two makes it a little easier to work with as I wont have to keep rendering the first part which does not change but really wish Apple would throw some light on this.
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    Yours Bengt W

  • Imovie 11 Can't Export Movies NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN THE HEAP ZONE!

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  • IMovie Exporting: "Not Enough Room In The Heap Zone"

    Okay, I'm trying to export a video from iMovie '11 on OSX 10.8.4 on a Macbook Pro (without retina display). It is only 1:53.
    Every time I try to export I get an error message:
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    I've tried exporting it, exporting it with quicktime, publishing it to youtube, exporting it through the share menu, and renaming the project. Nothing is working.
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    If you could help me out, that would be amazing.
    (Please do not link to another article, I've already looked at them all.)

    Trouble 
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    • Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free
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  • What does "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )" mean?

    When I click on finalize project in iMovie, an error message comes up that says "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )". How do I fix it, and what does it mean?

    re-post in the iMovie forum where all the people that use that software are.  This is the Lion 10.7 forum.

  • How can i fix this problem?? "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )"

    The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )
    how can i fix this problem?

    how can i fix this problem?
    Go to the right forum.
    This forum is for mobile iMovie.
    you may need the iMovie Mac forum:
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

  • The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )

    My iMovie Keep Saying "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Not enough room in heap zone / )" How Can I Fix It?

    Hi
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    Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
    (the Application down in the Dock - not the Device)
    But this can mean many thing's - My first thought is
    • Free Space on Start-Up hard disk. How much ? (other disks do not count)
    Yours Bengt W

  • How to prevent heap zone errors in iMovie'11

    How to prevent heap zone errors before or during a new iMovie11 project

    I read the discussion and sounds somewhat similar to how I fixed my heap zone error problem a year ago.  I was trying to be proactive before starting my next large project to see if additional info is available.
    Info on last year's project and how I corrected it: 40 min project for export to iDVD. OSX Lion, All updates installed, MACMINI lots of free HD space. I tried MANYsuggested discussion fixes available at that time, without success. Finally adopted an approach similar to that in you discussion.  Step 1: removed the latest content until an export version worked; Step 2 -  added a few minutes of content; Step 3 - exported until heap zone error reappeared; Step 4 -  repeated steps 1-3 more than 30 times until able to export the entire project without the heap zone error. A tedious process but it worked. (Note: I was new to Apple and not using Time Machine)

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  • What is a heap zone

    I have an iMovie ready to 'finalize' or share, but I keep getting an error message regarding not enough space in the heap zone. Is there a setting for this? What do I need to do? My project resides on a 2 T drive.

    Hi
    Error -108 memFullErr  Ran out of memory [not enough room in heap zone]
    Turn off - TimeMachine usually works - re-try.
    (the Application down in the Dock - not the Device)
    But this can mean many thing's - My first thought is
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    This is maddening for many people, and what's worse is that you're not told of this supposed lack of room in the 'heap zone' until quite a bit of time has elapsed (it happens to me during 'Finalize'). I mean, if I don't have enough room in this mysterious & arcane 'Heap Zone,' tell me right away; not a half-hour into it. People have deadlines; they need to complete their projects. Or, they simply need to get to sleep!
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