[MacDV] Better Performance of iMovie 3.

Erica Sadun erica at mindspring.com
Mon May 26 19:52:46 PDT 2003


>On 10th May Dennis Amith commented that he was getting a much faster 
>opening of iM3 since he upgraded to OSX 10.2.6.    I have to comment 
>that I have not noticed any appreciable improvement since taking 
>similar action, however the time it takes for iM3 to open in my 
>setup is not unreasonable.  I am using a G4-933 with 640 mb of RAM 
>and a 20" Apple LCD.
>
>A little earlier Erica responded to a query from someone who was 
>having performance problems as to whether they had tried the 
>"minimize window" trick.  From memory,  she later commented that 
>this was to do with exporting iMovie.

um...no.

>  Anyway, I decided to check whether the overall size of my iMovie3 
>window was minimized on my Desktop and it wasn't.   
>Since grabbing the little tab in the bottom RH corner and dragging 
>it as far as it will go towards the top LH corner the stability of 
>the Application has improved tremendously.

Yes. That's the window trick. Make it as small as possible.

-- E



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