Speed Issues--MacDV Digest #2680

[Ted Langdell]

Are you up do date on the OS versions and other software updates?

My friend Eric was having problems with a project in FCP 4 on a 1GHz G4 
laptop with 512 RAM.  The project would take FOREVER to open.

Yesterday, we updated his OS to 10.2.8, and caught several other things 
necessary before installing the iLife package (because we ultimately 
will use iDVD to burn a copy of the project) and voila... problem 
solved.

Maybe your bogged down situation is related to something a software 
upgrade will address?

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA

On Apr 21, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

> Message-Id: <s08620d6.048 at ra01m42.war.wyeth.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:20:44 -0400
> From: "Eric Phillips" <PHILLIE at wyeth.com>
> Subject: Speed issues
>
> Several days ago I posted a question about how slow things were when
> trying to edit the sound volume in iMovie4. I thought this was an
> iMovie4 problem since I had never had this problem with iMovie3 so I
> tried doing the sound editing in 3 but had the same problems. Does
> anyone have any ideas of what could be wrong? I use a separate 80g
> partition for my movie editing. I did have two projects on that
> partition so I moved the second one off to give me more free space. I
> have now only have 60min. worth of movie on the partition. I ran Disk
> Utility and checked the drive and fixed the permissions on the boot
> drive. I also ran MacJanitor and still things are slow. This is the
> first project that I extracted the audio from the clips, could this be
> the reason for the slow down? I have the same problem when editing the
> volume of some music that I imported from iTunes, not just the 
> extracted
> audio. Any thoughts?
>
> Eric
>