[MacDV] Exporting avi from iMovie

[rgb at ellerbach.com]

On Tue, September 27, 2005 10:32 am, Richard Gilmore said:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I¹ve got a project in iMovie about an hour and 10 minutes long with some
> titles and some audio extracted and pasted over other clips and the sound
> boosted to 150%. It¹s all fine in iMovie but I need to export/share it as
> an
> AVI file. In the ³share² export panel I select full quality no compression
> and it exports with the .avi extension. This works fine for small clips
> (2-3
> minutes) but when I try to export the entire movie (about 15-18 GB)

AVI is a bad format for large movies (never intended to support them)
because of the size limits imposed by the word length in the header. The
last I heard the word-size was 32 bits which imposes a 4GB limit on the
file.

Rich