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I’ve 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%. It’s all fine in iMovie but I need to export/share it as an AVI file. In the “share” 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) it either gives me an error saying either unknown data type or it just stops with no errors but with no video clip either. The reason it has to be exported as a raw avi is because it has to go to a Windows machine to be converted to streaming WMV files. The windows machine needs the raw video and a script encodes the video at different bit rates depending on the users connection speed and makes it one massive file which our server understands. I’ve done tests with small video exported from the Mac and it is suitable for use on the PC. This needs to be done to finish this project for starters but in the long run this needs to work to continue to help justify the Macs existence where I work. Video is supposed to be one of Apple’s strengths at least that’s how I’m selling it to the faculty here so this is an embarrassment to me. Am I doing something wrong?<BR>
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Panther iMac 20” G5 1 GB of RAM not other apps running while attempting export.<BR>
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Thanx<BR>
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Richard <BR>
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