Freezes and Crashes/iMovie 2

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 00:19:11 EDT, Trbl007 at aol.com wrote:
>I imported a 20 minute video via firewire from my Canon ZR 10 camcorder to my
>  external 30 G VST Firewire hard drive that was mounted via firewire on my
>9.54 G G4 computer.  I am using system 9.1 with 64 mb built in memory.
>
>Everything would work well for a bit (I would do some editing) and then the
>computer would either freeze up or bomb.  I would also get a finder message
>like the finder has quit or the finder needs attention or a message such as
>iMovie has quit.

I know that I can't import DV from my ZR 40 to a FireWire disk 
without problems. I have to import to my internal hard disk. There is 
something weird about the way at least some Canon camcorders do 
FireWire that interferes with FireWire hard disks. This is with OS X, 
BTW, but I assume the problem also applies to OS 9.

My problems would happen during the DV capture process. Yours are 
happening during editing. But maybe the DV file is corrupt in some 
way.

Try re-capturing the video, but to your internal hard disk. See if 
you still have the same trouble.
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