I know someone that ran into this. The answer was their external was in FAT32 format and they ran into the 4GB file size limit. If this is your issue then you know what to do next.
Bob
New! Cannot export project to camera, quicktime or external hard drive
Posted: Dec 5, 2007 5:54 PM
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I recently completed a project of about an hour and 37 minutes. I had iMovie crash dozens of times during the editing process, but was able to limp through it anyway. I'm left with about 14 gigs on the hard drive. The project is too big to export to Quicktime (not enough space on start-up disc). I cannot export to my deck for some reason as well. I've exported projects to it in the past and I can control, import and play the deck through the f/w cable currently, so I don't think it's the cable. It goes through the initiation process, but only exports a black signal to the deck, and no audio.
I tried to transfer the file to an external hd (Maxtor 4 step, 320 gig, usb 2.0 - F/W) but it was very slow (2gig/hr), and then an error came up saying "file for clip 3 not found" and the transfer stopped.
Obviously I need more speed on my ram, but I'm still stuck with a project and no ability to export

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