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I have arranged one of the movie in iMovie and the total come to 2 hrs and when I try to export to quicktime or share media to browser it is giving me file is too big. is there anyway I can export to quicktime with out gettig this message.. as I am not trying to upload the movie all i want is save the movie in my mac so that i can watch when needed... any help
 
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Which iMovie are you using? It sounds like you are running out of space on your hard drive. That's the only reason that you would get that message. iMovie doesn't care about the file size.
 
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That's a distinct possibility. Movies in QuickTime format can get quite large depending upon the exact codec being used. My video capture card can capture in uncompressed .mov files which QuickTime can open. I did a capture recently that was about 32 minutes. According to the Finder it weighs in at just over 110 GB.
 

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