Why does iMovie stop working after a set number of photos?

I have struggled through 3 Photo Storys so far using iMovie, only to be thrwated by the same problem every time!  There are hundreds of photos to add, to give you an idea I'm at 11 minutes 44 seconds with 1 second transitions and 4 second photos.
At the same point each time the iMovie project allows photos to be dropped in but are represented by black thumbnails.  On playing the movie they are then replaced with previous photos, looped several times.  It seems that Apple have put in a maximum limit of photos?
Answers to questions I'm preguessing:
1:     I use iMovie for this because I can use transitions, text etc which is far better than the slideshows that iPhoto create.
2:     The images are no imported in to iPhoto as they are school pictures.  Therefore they are stored locally and dragged in to place when needed.
3:     I use Mac OS X Lion and the latest available version of iLife '11.
4:     320gb of free space!
5:     No music in the movie but that doesn't seem to make a difference (First two had sound, third did not).
6:     All images used are JPEG, no CR2 etc...
7:     No files are stored on the network and are only linked locally.

I'm having this problem as well.  In my case I'm getting partial 0 byte files, sometimes with temporary hex file names with the .mp4 extension.
I copied the whole library (which was new and only contained one project) over to my laptop, where export then went just fine. I've also been having other QuickTime related issues.  You can help pin this down with a few tests:
Open a short .mov video (best taken on iPhone, import with Image Capture) in QuickTime X. Attempt to export to 480p.  Does QT crash?
Try to import the same .mov video in iPhoto 9.5.x.  Does it import normally to iPhoto? Or do you get "unrecognized format" errors?
Do you see any crash logs for ProTranscoderTool_sb in Console?
If you search for iMovie in console, do you find any lines that mention problems with these files?:
/Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/FCP-DAL/iOSScreenCapture.plugin/Contents/MacOS/iOS ScreenCapture
"The bundle “iLMBPhotosPlugin” couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources."
/Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser/Plug-Ins/iLMBPhotosPlugin.ilmbplugin/Contents/MacOS/i LMBPhotosPlugin
I also wonder if there's any conflict/issue with FCP being installed.  Not very helpful but see this link:
http://theappleqa.com/final-cut-pro-x/59506-ProTranscoder-Tool-Not-Responding-ca n-t-complete-share.html
Also see this related thread (also no solution yet):
iMovie 10.0 not sharing

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