Why is iMovie telling me the movie is too long when I try to export to mov at 720p? The movie is 55 minutes.

What do I need to do?

Thomas Dickson1is right, you might be running out of free open disk space without knowing it. When you go to the desktop, hold down the <CTRL> key then click on the Mac HD icon, Choose Get Info and see how much space is listed under the 'Available' Label.

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