[MacDV] iMovie 3 export stutters to camera...

[Juan Mariscal]

bottom line: Use iMovie 2

I don't think a G3 is up to handling iMovie 3.

I think my G4 iMac 800Mhz machine is barely able to do it. It 
"unexpectedly quits" quite often. In fact these are usually EXPECTED 
QUITS. Anytime I make ANY change I always save it. iMovie 3 is just 
plain unstable (and very very slow).

I have 768Mb of RAM but I think I should have 2x that but I can't.


I have finally decided that iMovie 3 is a great program with great 
features. unfortunately it STILL is not ready for prime time. It 
requires lots of memory, a hard drive that is fast and clean. I read 
somewhere that someone recommended that you should have a hard drive 
that is dedicated to video editing and once you finish something you 
should wipe it clean and start with a fresh hard drive for the next 
project. I think that is a great recommendation and may also be part of 
your problem. Your hard drive is fragmented.


Just some thoughts.


Juan


On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Sean wrote:

> At the school where I teach, we have five G3 600 MHz iMacs running OS 
> X 10.2.6. All have the same configuration, however, one iMac plays 
> iMovie 3 projects beautifully on the screen but stutters when 
> exporting to miniDV camcorder. The four other iMacs export smoothly as 
> they should using the same FireWire cable to the same miniDV > camcorder.
>
> One other observation, when trying to export to camera using the 
> ailing iMac, the sound from the movie comes through on the computers 
> speakers and you can watch the video on the iMac as it is exported. 
> When you export using any of the other four iMacs, you don't hear or 
> see anything from the iMac during the export.
>
> One thing I tried: I trashed and reinstalled iMovie 3.02. Same 
> symptoms.
>
> Any suspects? A fragmented hard disk? A FireWire hardware problem?
>
> Post here or e-mail me directly.
>
> Sean
> spenney at stemnet.ca
>