[quiklee]

I'm working on a 10 minute clip right now and iMovie is starting to crash on me at the 5 minute mark. I was wondering who has created anything longer on their iMacs and/or has anyone experienced the same thing.

[ibook_steve]

What does this have to do with MacBooks or iBooks?

In any case, what do you mean that it crashes at 5 minutes? Do you mean when you add enough clips to have a 5 minute movie? Can you be more specific about when it crashes and what you are doing when it does?

Steve

[ghporter]

Moving to Applications-but only because this is an interesting-sounding problem.

[msuper69]

I have created hundreds of iMovie projects up to 2 hours long over the last couple of years. Nary a problem worth mentioning on any of them.

The kind of Mac you're using has absolutely no effect on the use of iMovie other than the faster the Mac the faster the iMovie project can be processed.

[wulf]

Yes I've worked on iMovie projects of half an hour and more in length (including some quite complex ones which were rough cuts of documentaries).

If iMovie is crashing at a particular point on the timeline every time, I would be suspicious of a corrupt or otherwise problematic clip (or sound file, or image, whatever). Examine the clips it is playing at that point, try replacing them and see if the timeline plays through. If it does it's the clip at fault and you may need to delete and recapture it.

[JKT]

Try splitting the clip just prior to and just after the time point that is causing the crash rather than deleting the whole thing - you may lose a little bit of the clip this way, but at least it won't be all of it.