When I try exporting my movie it says, "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (Error in user parameter list)" I've tried many things including taking out special characters in the title.

Please Help!

Additional info: trying to write to internal disk (268 GB Free out of 499 GB)
Please advise, alko80

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Video codec
• streamingDV, AIC etc. (not .avi, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv etc as they are containers not codecs)
Pictures
• in what format ? .jpg, .bmp, .tif, else ?
Audio
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Video codec
• streamingDV, AIC etc. (not .avi, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv etc as they are containers not codecs)
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