[MacDV] newby question

[Doug Mitchell]

I had similar if not more severe problems with a G3, 400 running iMovie 
2.  My second drive which I used for digital video was running as a 
slave to my main drive, which means that it was connected to the same 
bus as the main drive.  This main bus on a G3 runs at 33mhz which is 
not fast enough for digital video.  I had to install an ATA 66 card in 
one of my PCI slots to solve the problem.  This allowed the faster bus 
to carry the video and the problems went away.  These buses are not 
expensive and give you the option of using your second drive as a 
second startup drive.  Other things which are a must on slower machines 
include turning off the energy saver and de-fragmenting the hard-drive 
containing the video.  I hope that this helps.

Doug Mitchell
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:34  PM, Jonathan & Diana Long 
wrote:

> I'm new to digital video...
>
> I'm using imovie 3 on a G3 350 with 700mb ram and 2 drives (imovie is 
> on a
> 30 GB and I capture on a separate 20GB drive.
>
> I'm attempting to export back to tape and I'm getting garbled audio 
> near the
> end of the project....
>
> Can I do anything different or am I making a basic mistake?
>
> Please reply off list to: feal at tds.net
>
> TIA
>
> Jon
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