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I made a 30 minute movie in iMove using video from a GoPro camera. The resolution is 960p. When I went to finalize the 30 minute movie, it says it's 1080p, and it says it will take 9 hours. What's wrong with this picture? That's the kind of speed we got with the pre-historic 486 megabyte PCs. Anyone here proficient on the iMove?
 

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The estimated time for encoding videos isn't always accurate. It depends on how many other tasks your processor is trying to do at any given time. That said, even with Final Cut Pro and Compressor, it's never been estimated to take 9 hours to encode a thirty minute video. Maybe someone else can help, but maybe you should just go ahead and let it encode. I'm sure it won't take as long as it says.
 
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Is the file straight out of the camera? ( 960P )...960P...that's a very odd resolution...are you rendering at 960P? Try 1080 or 720.
 
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Rendering? I loaded the video from my GoPro 960 onto my HD, then imported it into iMovie. It is 960 resolution. I did the "finalize" on it last night, then when I went to publish it this morning it was very unfriendly, no prompts to publish except to You Tube or the net, or to DVD. The movie is in the tray at the bottom, but I can't seem to do anything with it except play it in iMove. I get this message. What the heck is the user parameter list? I wonder why iMovie can't just simply make the movie without all the hassles.
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Has anyone got any ideas why I can't publish this video? I can't figure out what this message means.
 
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Where do you want to publish it to?
 
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If the movie is finished...go to share dropdown click on export movie ( or it's equivilant...I'm not at my Mac now...) Then let the movie be exported as a .mov to your desktop. Once it's made upload it anywhere you want.
 
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I want to publish it to my HD, but cannot find an option to do that. I tried publishing it to You Tube, but that didn't work either.
 
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Don't "publish" the movie. Export the movie. Once you have exported it...it's an .mov file...done.. finished...ready for whatever you want. You can then upload the thing anywhere...but you'll likely run into file size restrictions with a 30 min. movie. iMovie is very intuitiuve...just follow some simple advice here...
 
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I did try to export the movie several times,but it just kept coming back with excuses why it could't....all in jibberish I couldn't understand.
 
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all in jibberish I couldn't understand
Such as? The Export option is pretty simple. How were you trying to do it, and to which format?
 
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Error in user parameter list was the message. I was trying to export it as .mov file in 720 resolution to YouTube. It seems to get to 16% and stops every time.

PS Sorry if I sounded disgruntled, but I just got really frustrated and need to realize I'm not going to learn it all in a month.

I did export a short video to YouTube this morning, but I had to do it by exporting with the Quicktime feature and it took the quality all the way down to 480 and it still took an hour to upload a 2 minuter video. Here's the link to it.
YouTube - Montana ATV Tracks Test HD Video
 
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I finally got a movie to export to a DVD RW disc, but it only plays in the iMac, not on a DVD player on my TV.
I tried using iDisc to put it on a DVD, but when I put in my blank disc it says "Please insert a recordable dvd" I don't understand why it won't record on a new DVD +R I guess I'll have to buy -R and try it. Am I even in the right place here on the screen shot?

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I can't really tell what you are doing. What part of the process is this happening at? After you've edited all your footage into the timeline? When you say "finalize", are you talking about the process of finishing the footage in the camera, or are you referring to exporting the final movie? What file format are the movies getting imported as? Are you looking under the Share menu to find all the different export options?

This is really one of those things that's much easier to understand visually. It's really hard for me to imagine what exactly your problem is without seeing what you're actually doing. It sounds like you might have skipped a step somewhere, because I think you have to export the project as a movie file before you can create a YouTube or another version. Did you watch or ready any tutorials before you started?

If you're near an Apple Store, I would sign up for one of their free instructional seminars. There is probably one for iMovie.

Here is a series of iMovie tutorials on the Apple site. These are almost always a good place to start if you're new to Macs. In fact, one of them is specifically about exporting for YouTube.

Apple - Find Out How - Movies - iMovie

Also, try looking in the Help menu in iMovie. There's a lot of information there too.
 

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I meant to say export, which I guess meant the same as finalize in WMM. I am now able to export short movies, but I haven't figured out yet how to get them to play in a regular DVD player to watch on a TV. Here's info on the movie. I'll be reading the manual some more.
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in order to get a movie that plays on regular DVD players export the movie ti iDVD. Also try using DVD-r discs. There are still some players that don't like RW discs or DvD+R.
 
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OK, I exported this little one minute movie to iDVD, then it just disappears when it's done creating it and I can't find it to play it. How do I get it to where I can burn it?
 

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