What version/OS are you running? iMovie/iDVD have completely changed recently. Typically, you'd "export" it as a QuickTime, which would be a video you can play in iTunes. It's going to be one of those options.

 

iMovie is vesion 9.0.5 and it's OS X 10.7.4.

I was able to save the movie to the desktop but it won't let me drag and drop or copy it onto the drives. Every time I do it just "floats" back to the desktop.

 

Ok, I'm currently exporting it to the USB. Hopefully it works this time. Supposed to take 37 minutes.

 

Haha ugh. iMovie projects are kinda complicated. Video editing stuff is not my strong suit, sorry I couldn't be more help. We never got training on any software stuff, unless we were promoted to be a trainer - I was not. I can coach you through photo editing, but video editing and exporting, I know the basics, but I also know apple has kinda screwed up with iMovie recently. On a new USB 3.0/SSD Mac, that transfer would take seconds. Obviously any computer with an SSD and USB 3.0 would be quick, but usually transferring stuff is so easy on macs - typically just drag and drop. You might not have been able to transfer it because it wasn't formatted - like if you exported it as a QuickTime to the desktop and not an iMovie project file, pretty sure that would have fixed it.

 

The file I saved to the desktop was a .mov file.

I found using iMovie to be very easy. It was how to actually save/export the file where I ran into issues. There's so many different options that it's hard to know which one to choose. As for speed, it took four hours to upload it to YouTube. If it had been the wifi at school it would have been a few minutes.

 

Yeah that's what I meant, the exporting part is where they screwed up. Hmm if it's a .mov it should play.

 

It will play with quicktime, but it won't copy over to the flash drive. I've tried exporting it to the drive several times and it goes through the whole process with the loading bar, but then it just disappears.

 

It's just a base MacBook? White plastic model?

 

Now you're confusing me. It's a 15" MacBook Pro. She just bought it late last summer. This one:

 

C'mon Patrick, step your Apple game up son!

 

Haha gotcha, I thought I read earlier that it was just a MacBook - which only has 2gb of ram, on which Lion (10.7) requires 2gb just to function, so it sounded like it could be low application memory dedicated to iMovie, but you should be fine on a 15" MBP.

 

You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!!

 

Ya, I probably got lazy and dropped the "Pro" part. lol

 

Lol!

 

Nathan, have you considered just doing a factory reset on your laptop? If you've never just wiped it out and started from scratch, a lot of junk in there could be part of your problem! I do that to my desktop once or twice a year.

 

I just did a little over a month ago when it would do absolutely nothing anymore. Now its being a pain again and its falling apart anyways, so I think its just time for something new.

 

Okay, didn't know what you did. It would have been a good way to buy some time if it helped. Time for a new one I guess!

 

It hasn't been the same since I did it. Plus now it's taking over a minute for the screen to turn on after I wake it up from sleeping. It's just one thing after another. I need something more reliable.

 

at the notification.

 

Doh! Didn't realize I got that