Why won't imovie '11 finalize or prepare my project??

why won't imovie '11 finalize or prepare my project?? Just an error message. I've made many videos before with NO issues.

Sorry, but there's a dedicated discussion forum for iMovie, where you might be luckier finding help.

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I've made a few movies already. Now imovie is telling it can't prepare the project due to a lack of space in the heap zone. Help.

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1. Importing worked in iMovie 08, but not iMovie 6 HD.
2. Removing all other firewire devices (except the camera) from the computer allowed proper import. This includes external hard drives.
If #2 fits your description, check out my thread here for how I fixed it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1115534&tstart=0
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Why won't iMovie voiceover clips won't play sound!

I've been using iMovie '11 version 9.0.9, to make a school assignment. I started two days ago and it was allw orking perfectly fine, until today when some of the clips won't play. It started after I deleted a voiceover clip to replace it with a song from itunes. When I tried to add the song it showed that it was there but it played no sound. I managed to get that song working by dragging the song onto the whole project and then dragging and pinning it onto the parts I needed it.
After I got that working I tried to add new voiceover clips to the project but then there was no sund coming from that clip either! After about an hour of searching and fiddling I had just about given up when I played my project in the background and ran it through untill the end and I heard the last clip I added, that wasn't working before but now is.
At this point I recorded another clip to add thinking my problem was fixed, but alas that voicover clip played no sound. I thought I might try running through the entire project again to see if that would help like the last time. But no, that was not the case, in fact even more sound clips have stopped working.
I read in a lot of other threads that it might be a corrupt clip and it will have a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark in it (or a spinnign circle?), but none of the clips have this! Is there something I need to do to see the triangle, if that is the problem? Or is it something completely different?
Please help me I desperately need to get this working by tonight!

Sorry, but there's a dedicated discussion forum for iMovie, where you might be luckier finding help.

Why won't iMovie 11 open after installing lion?

I recently installed OS X Lion on my early 2008 Macbook and iMovie 11 worked perfectly. However, I just upgraded my internal hard drive to 500gb. I then reinstalled the new OS X Lion on this hard drive and used Time Machine to import all my files and applications including iMovie 11. However, now iMovie will not open. The menu bar shows that the application is running, however, there are no windows open and I can't open any projects. I have run software update many times and it states that it is up-to-date (iMovie 9.0.4).    I even redownloaded iLife and resinstalled everything, but it still won't open. Any suggestions?

Try removing these two files (must be removed at the same time)
1: Quit iMovie 11
2: Remove: {your local home account}>Library>Preferences>com.apple.iApps.plist
    AND
3: Remove: {your local homeaccount}>Library>Preferences>com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
    These files will be recreated when you launch iMove
4: Start up iMovie 11 (should show your movie again)
Good Luck. Work Great!
PS...
Got Lion? (user prefs is hidden)- Here is how to find the user library preferences. Then you can remove the files as described. This will fix iMovie launching and showing the windows.
Use Go To Folder The Go To Folder command, in the Finder’s Go menu (also accessible by pressing Shift+Command+G). Just type ~/Libraryand click Go to view the folder.

Why won't iMovie export my movies?

Basically Imovie isn't uploading anything for me every since the new update. I used a lot of green screen effects and picture backgrounds so I assumed that may be the problem and recorded the movie it self with quick time player. Yet even after it was just one clip and music, it won't export.
It says it has "failed".
Help?

Hello there, charliewittke.
The following link from the online iMovie Help Guide shows the steps on how to export your video:
iMovie Help: Export a QuickTime file
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#move6e0cb2ad
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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This is extremely aggravating, iMovie suddenly wont open 2 of my projects. I was working on them for hours and finally got them how i wanted them to be, and when i go to open it later, it won't open! All that happens when I click on it is that it lets me change the name. Even worse, I tried to recreate the projects, I started working, left to do something else, and now it wont let me open one of them, and the other lost all my clips, (went from 10 minutes to 19 seconds). I checked around and tried all I could, deleting the preference file, i made sure the files where in the imovie folder, emptying space on imovie, and nothing works!! Please respond if you have any ideas........
P.S. it is the most updated version of imovie '11 9.0 on a macbook pro

Mary, You've posted this question in the wrong area.
iMovie '11 is for Mac. You've posted in the iOS section for iPhone, iPad etc.

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Right now I'm working on a ridiculously simple project. No more than five minutes long, a couple clips, a cross fade or two, and then done. Why the **** isn't iMovie saving this progress? I make these changes, i can't manually click File-->Save, so of course I'm left to letting iMovie do this for me, but it doesn't . After these changes, I quit the program, come back later to work on something else, and it's all gone.
I don't know who in Apple thinks this was a good idea--not implementing a manual SAVE function--something that literally every media software ever developed has done since the beginning of their existence. Why I can't be allowed to tell this piece of crap program to save is beyond me, because having to rely on the program itself to supposedly automatically track its progress and save by itself is not working.

I keep opening up imovie to find the project I worked on 3 projects ago open in the editing panel, and none of my new stuff, including imports, visible. However, when I click "project library" all the recent projects are there with up to the minute edits. Not sure what's going on, but try clicking project library and see if your stuff is there.

Why won't iMovie recognize canon vixia hv40

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Why won't IMovie upload my videos onto YouTube in HD?

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But whats the one file type iMovie REFUSES to import?
.mov!
A Google search shows that people have struggled for more than five years with this insane limitation, with the best workaround being "use third-party software to convert he .mov to another file type, and then import THAT."
Why would Apple create video editing software that rejects Apple's own default video format??

A .mov file is just a "container" (a bucket) that can hold dozens of different file compression formats.
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