iMovie crashes when exporting movie.

Hi krisscout,

You're not the only person with this issue:

forums.macrumors.com/threads/imovie-fails-to-export-to-file.1902618/

It appears to be a bug in iMovie's coding (perhaps only when running on 10.11). As a result, the only fix will be in a update of iMovie subsequent to Apple's software engineers being aware of the issue.

For that you'll need to file a bug report here, or use the Feedback Assistant app that is bundled with the Public Beta of El Capitan. It is also available from the help menu of iMovie by choosing 'Send Feedback’.

Max.

If you are interested to find out if the problem is with exporting any movie from iMovie or if the problem is with a particular setting that you have on your current Movie, try the following:

1. Quit iMovie
2. Open the Movies folder in your Home folder and move the iMovie Projects folder to the desktop.
3. Open iMovie; create a new test project using film footage from the Event Library.
4. Try to export it or to do whatever you were doing when it crashed.
5. Move the old iMovie Projects folder back to the Movies folder, replacing the new one.

If exporting the test movie still causes iMovie to crash then you know that all you can do is wait for an update. If it exported okay, then you can experiment until you find the feature that you can't use with iMovie at the moment.

To answer your last question, if you want your movie to be watchable outside of iMovie then, yes, you have to export it.

Thanks!